With thanks to Andy Kirkham, who posted this on the uk.railway group:

50% discount off rail travel
Book online between 25 August - 1 September and receive a 50% discount when
you spend 40 or more.
Click here to receive your 50% discount.

http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/emailCampaign/interim1.php

Rail Offer Terms and Conditions

Discounted rail tickets can only be purchased between 25 August -1 September
inclusive.
Rail tickets can only be booked using the weblinks shown.
Discounts will only be given on transaction values of 40 or more.
Usual terms and conditions apply to discounted tickets purchased.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:25:40 +0100, "Carl Bowman"
 wrote:


>With thanks to Andy Kirkham, who posted this on the uk.railway group:
>
>50% discount off rail travel
>Book online between 25 August - 1 September and receive a 50% discount when
>you spend 40 or more.
>Click here to receive your 50% discount.
>
>http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/emailCampaign/interim1.php
>
>Rail Offer Terms and Conditions
>
>Discounted rail tickets can only be purchased between 25 August -1 September
>inclusive.
>Rail tickets can only be booked using the weblinks shown.
>Discounts will only be given on transaction values of 40 or more.
>Usual terms and conditions apply to discounted tickets purchased.
>


Wow! Thanks for that, Carl - just saved myself 113 in one fell swoop! :-)

"Gareth"  wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:25:40 +0100, "Carl Bowman"
>  wrote:
>
>>With thanks to Andy Kirkham, who posted this on the uk.railway group:
>>
>>50% discount off rail travel
>>Book online between 25 August - 1 September and receive a 50% discount 
>>when
>>you spend 40 or more.
>>Click here to receive your 50% discount.
>>
>>http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/emailCampaign/interim1.php
>>
>>Rail Offer Terms and Conditions
>>
>>Discounted rail tickets can only be purchased between 25 August -1 
>>September
>>inclusive.
>>Rail tickets can only be booked using the weblinks shown.
>>Discounts will only be given on transaction values of 40 or more.
>>Usual terms and conditions apply to discounted tickets purchased.
>>
>
> Wow! Thanks for that, Carl - just saved myself 113 in one fell swoop! :-)



Thanks M8, you're a star just saved 42

Super post, just saved £68 and booking a first class treat for me and
the missus.
Thanks to OP and Andy Kirkham.

"Carl Bowman"  wrote in message 
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> With thanks to Andy Kirkham, who posted this on the uk.railway group:


Managed to book several tickets for days out next week as on leave and hubby 
got a couple of rail tickets to football so many thanks to OP and AK.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:25:40 +0100, "Carl Bowman"
 wrote:


>With thanks to Andy Kirkham, who posted this on the uk.railway group:
>
>50% discount off rail travel
>Book online between 25 August - 1 September and receive a 50% discount when
>you spend 40 or more.
>Click here to receive your 50% discount.
>
>http://www.firstgroup.com/scotrail/emailCampaign/interim1.php


Harumph. So much for this one. I booked three journeys through this offer,
and got a confirmation e-mail from them to say it had all gone through. My
first journey was supposed to be today, so I rang them yesterday to find out
why my tickets hadn't arrived. Turns out that their crappy computerised
bookings system had cocked up when applying the discounts to my journeys -
rather than taking 50% off each one individually, it had taken 100% off one
journey, about 25% off the second and nothing off the third in order to
achieve an overall 50% discount off the total spend. (The amount that's been
taken from my credit card is exactly half of what those three journeys would
have cost me in full.)

That sounds OK in principle - but it transpires that the journey which had
had the 100% discount applied had then been flagged up on the system as not
having been paid for - so they didn't send out any tickets. After getting
nowhere for fifteen minutes with some clueless numpty in a call centre in
Mumbai, I finally managed to get someone from a UK office on the phone -
what he was finally able to tell me is that because the system thinks that
the ticket hadn't been paid for they consider it to not be booked, despite
me having an e-mail to confirm that it has. They wouldn't let me rebook it
at the offer price, nor would they correct the "system error" (his words,
not mine) and make arrangements for me to collect the ticket at the station.
So now I'm paying 75% of full price for journey 2, full price for journey 3,
and will have to pay full price for journey 1 when I buy my ticket at the
station tomorrow. First Scotrail - what a bunch of ****s.

> 
> That sounds OK in principle - but it transpires that the journey which had
> had the 100% discount applied had then been flagged up on the system as
> not having been paid for - so they didn't send out any tickets. After
> getting nowhere for fifteen minutes with some clueless numpty in a call
> centre in Mumbai, I finally managed to get someone from a UK office on the
> phone - what he was finally able to tell me is that because the system
> thinks that the ticket hadn't been paid for they consider it to not be
> booked, despite me having an e-mail to confirm that it has. They wouldn't
> let me rebook it at the offer price, nor would they correct the "system
> error" (his words, not mine) and make arrangements for me to collect the
> ticket at the station. So now I'm paying 75% of full price for journey 2,
> full price for journey 3, and will have to pay full price for journey 1
> when I buy my ticket at the station tomorrow. First Scotrail - what a
> bunch of ****s.


They have done this a lot. Check out the discussion in uk.railway on the
subject. 

I managed to argue my way into collecting my 50% tickets at the station,
which I did yesterday. Many others have too. I shouldn't need to argue
though.