Not a Scam, But Pretty Scammy
This site is NOT a scam, but it sure is *scammy.* It works, and it's user-friendly. They also dump a ton of money into Google Adwords so they show up first no matter which rail agency you're looking for, and even have landing pages saying they are "trusted partners" of municipal and national railways. I looked for a long time for rail tickets from Porto to Lisbon and this site kept coming up no matter how far I dug into the Google results ... so I figured it was the way to go. Only after I bought tickets did I realize that they had added on a fairly sizable markup vs. the official government pages (which were buried in AdWords pages back on page 2-3 of the Google results). That markup almost *DOUBLED* the price of the tickets. Even with their very strict refund policy, I did look into doing a refund because even with their fees and penalties I could still save some Euro by refunding and buying through the official agencies ... but I didn't want to risk it the day before the trip. Our tickets worked fine, but I definitely feel like I got fleeced on this one.
