Hi there I was looking at buying a TGV train ticket on their website. In particular I wanted to buy a 12:00 noon departure on the IdTGV train as the time was the most convenient.
At first it looked simple. I tried but the calendar said it could only book 3 months out. So I waited a couple of months, until the calendar was available, and tried to book. I tried booking on the SNCF website, but when I put in my country it put me through to some other website (not sure if it was a scam or computer virus) as the directed website Rail Europe which charged much higher prices.
Next I went to the idTGV website, and it was buggy. I kept getting script errors on Internet Explorer. Then I used Firefox, Opera and Chrome web browsers and non of them would take me to the payment page. They would let me choose my seats, then they would ask me the passenger names and birth dates, and after entering all that information it would ask me for the person organizing the trip. In that section it kept saying there was an error with my phone number. Hence I could never even get to the payment page.
So back I went for another half hour trying the SNCF website trying to book. This time I noticed there was a small link, and if I quickly closed the SPAM pop up for Rail Europe I could continue to the SNCF website which has the lower price. Then I complete all the information. But after I enter my credit card information and security ID, it finally says sorry there was an error at this time please try again.