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I've been struggling for over an hour to buy a rail ticket to Cambridge. You'd think it would be easy. Not so.
Trainline informed that there were no legal ways to travel between Poole and Cambridge on the desired dates. Another ticket site told me it could be done for £112 return.
Not believing either, I went back to the original site and split the journey into two separate return trips to London, whereupon it suddenly became possible for a mere £35.
However, this involved buying two separate tickets in succession and my debit card was declined for the second transaction. Far too many repeated attempts and phone calls later, I find that this is because it was assumed to be possible fraud. (So much for 'verified by Visa' and the extra password I correctly input for that)
I've now got to wait 10 mins for my card to be reinstated, by which time the train times I've set up on Trainline will probably have expired and I'll have to put all the data in yet AGAIN.
Nope - added ten mins later. At least I didn't have to put the train times in again. One small mercy.
Now, all I have to worry about is whether the tickets will make it safely through the postal strikes...
Trainline informed that there were no legal ways to travel between Poole and Cambridge on the desired dates. Another ticket site told me it could be done for £112 return.
Not believing either, I went back to the original site and split the journey into two separate return trips to London, whereupon it suddenly became possible for a mere £35.
However, this involved buying two separate tickets in succession and my debit card was declined for the second transaction. Far too many repeated attempts and phone calls later, I find that this is because it was assumed to be possible fraud. (So much for 'verified by Visa' and the extra password I correctly input for that)
I've now got to wait 10 mins for my card to be reinstated, by which time the train times I've set up on Trainline will probably have expired and I'll have to put all the data in yet AGAIN.
Nope - added ten mins later. At least I didn't have to put the train times in again. One small mercy.
Now, all I have to worry about is whether the tickets will make it safely through the postal strikes...