| ??? 03/12/10 09:32 Read: times |
#174039 - Weird railway pricing. Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Unfortunately, most railway tickets at deliberately overpriced _unless_ you take discounts and rebates into account.
Here in Germany, the Bundesbahn will give you a whopping 75% off the regular ticket price under certain conditions (buy some kind of membership card for 25% off, buy a return ticket and do so a few days in advance for another 25% off, and either travel on a weekend or "across" a weekend for another 25% off). And then there's tons of other "special" offers. I believe the discount system is deliberately made as confusing as possible to squeeze the hapless traveller who isn't intimately familiar with it for the maximum amount of cash. :/ |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Someone explain this to me O.T | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I hope that is a return ticket | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That's a typical U.S. problem | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The straight Facts | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Somewhat missing the point? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Maybe an analogy.... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pricing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| what is price by air? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| They have it well sown up | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Consider the true cost? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| "Hector makes Scrooge look like a paragon of munificence" | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Hah! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| That wasn't my point | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I know ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What other travel methods? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Weird railway pricing. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Weird & weirder railway pricing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
USA, West Coast | 01/01/70 00:00 |