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Title: Best websites for buying train tickets Post by: Max of Yatton on November 26, 2010, 16:26:15 An interesting article about the best sites for buying tickets; incidentally do FGW site:
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/book-cheap-train-tickets-we-review-the-best-rail-booking-websites-50001767/ Title: Re: Best websites for buying train tickets Post by: eightf48544 on November 27, 2010, 10:56:02 I tend to use National rail and buy from Chiltern as the least worse TOC. They get 9%!
No problems so far with originally posted tickets usually arrived next day and now collecting from Taplow. Title: Re: Best websites for buying train tickets Post by: Brucey on November 27, 2010, 11:01:06 My favourite retailer is East Coast as I like the "Mixing Deck" interface - I find this very easy to use, although it could confuse others.
Although Southern and Southeastern have the same interface, I only use their website to buy discounted tickets on their own services. Reason being they get difficult if tickets get lost and you didn't pay for recorded delivery. Recently I've been buying through FTPE and SWT (both Trainline websites) as they are offering cashback on their tickets through cashback websites (like Top Cashback, imutual, Fatcheese, etc). Martin Lewis has a good guide on how these types of websites work: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/shopping/cashback-websites Title: Re: Best websites for buying train tickets Post by: Super Guard on November 27, 2010, 17:42:27 I tend to use National rail and buy from Chiltern as the least worse TOC. They get 9%! No problems so far with originally posted tickets usually arrived next day and now collecting from Taplow. Out of curiosity, surely as a traveller on FGW, you would rather money was going into FGW's pocket for possible improvements than to another TOC ??? Title: Re: Best websites for buying train tickets Post by: SDS on November 27, 2010, 22:26:16 Not 9% commission any more. Try closer to 5%, thats why trainline started charging for everything as the charges cut into its commission.
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