1. My home service, the Pacific Surfliner, has unreserved seating. The ticket doesn't even list a train number or a date of travel because each ticket is good for any train between the identified city pair for one year. It's more like a subway ticket than a train ticket.
2. I generally use a promo code when buying over the Web, and it gets me 20% off, but the code expires this December.
(1) and (2) got me thinking: could I buy several sets of tix (using the promo code) and bank them? Leave them unprinted until the day of travel when I would use a Quick Trak to print one set from my bank? If so, I could potentially save quite a bit by using the discounted tix well into next year even after the discount has expired, and even during the higher-priced summer season. (Most of my travel is between the same city pair)
However, I'm not sure this will work because, using the Web, I still have to choose a date and train of travel and I don't know if that would xfer over to the Quick Trak and cause it to burp if, next April, I print a set of tix I bought today.
I could punt: buy several sets for, say, this November, then print all the sets before that date and store them in my files, but I'd rather not print before I use because then it's less for me to have to keep track of. Plus, if I buy too many but they're not printed I can get a refund on the unused tix.
So... does anyone know the answers?
2. I generally use a promo code when buying over the Web, and it gets me 20% off, but the code expires this December.
(1) and (2) got me thinking: could I buy several sets of tix (using the promo code) and bank them? Leave them unprinted until the day of travel when I would use a Quick Trak to print one set from my bank? If so, I could potentially save quite a bit by using the discounted tix well into next year even after the discount has expired, and even during the higher-priced summer season. (Most of my travel is between the same city pair)
However, I'm not sure this will work because, using the Web, I still have to choose a date and train of travel and I don't know if that would xfer over to the Quick Trak and cause it to burp if, next April, I print a set of tix I bought today.
I could punt: buy several sets for, say, this November, then print all the sets before that date and store them in my files, but I'd rather not print before I use because then it's less for me to have to keep track of. Plus, if I buy too many but they're not printed I can get a refund on the unused tix.
So... does anyone know the answers?