Confused about buying train tickets online

Also, when is your journey supposed to take place? It could be that you are trying to buy tickets more than 92 days in advance, which Bahn.de cannot do.

Actually, DB can sell ticket for connections with sections entirely outside of Germany (example, Munich to Interlaken with sections from Zürich to Bern and Bern to Interlaken Ost), but usually doesn't. However, DB can sell tickets from anywhere to anywhere, by phone.

If you search for a connection to or from a city outside of Germany, and you don't get a fare offering, expand the connection by clicking the '>' symbol to the left of the connection and find the first stop outside of Germany. You will be able to get fares for that far, possible even discounted fares. The remainder of the connection you will have to buy separately from that country's website or over there.

Thank you both. This is helpful.

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George

I don't think her problem is trying to purchase tickets too far in advance. Every time I search the Bahn site for fares more than 92 days in advance I get the message, "Sale possible 92 days in advance at earliest".