Mini fares on Trenitalia

Here is what the trenitalia website says about the fare rules: When and how to book The MINI offer can be booked up to midnight of the day before departure on this website, at authorised travel agencies and through our call centre, also with ticketless option, at ticket desks and self-service ticket machines at train stations. The MINI offer cannot be cumulated with other reductions or offers, including children reduction. The number of seats available is limited and varies according to the day of the week, the train and the class ed. Booking/ticket changes
All MINI tickets, including tickets purchased online and with ticketless option, can be changed solely at ticket desks at train stations or at the travel agency where the ticket was issued up to midnight of the day before departure. Changes can be made only once. You are only allowed to change the departure date or time for the same category of train or service, subject to a change fee (equal to the difference to the corresponding full base price). You can also look at the posts by GAC. He explains them very well. Donna

There are early booking fares for Trenitalia. Typical - pay in advance, lock in the travel, no refund, etc. for the discounted price. Similar to our airlines advance ticket policy. Historically Americans have been unable to take advantage of these discounted fares because the Italian's did not like our credit cards. But some have reported success recently in using an Am credit card so give it a try. Somewhere on the Trenitalia site is a description of the restrictions.

Almost no one (posting here) has been able to figure out how to book advance tickets on the Trenitalia site using American credit cards, because for a couple of years now the site rejects about 98% of American credit cards.

Here is my posting about the "MINI" fares, which take effect on January 24: http://slowtalk.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/862600685/m/816002133001

Thank you all for the good information.