10 TIPS FOR EASY IRCTC TATKAL BOOKING:
1. Sign in at the right time, there is no point in staying logged in from 9:30 for tatkal as IRCTC servers would throw you out anyway if you dont do much for a while, 0955-1005 should be ideal.
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2. Now you would very usually face an experience of IRCTC rejecting you straight out. Do not...
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feel hurt like a average guy being rejected by the hottest gal in town. Try Again, we can take our chances with IRCTC and it wont hit us back anyway(Well, atleast not physically). If you are logged in your second attempt, you are awesome, First attempt logged in-you are better than Hitler.
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3. After dikhafying a lot of Bhav, you may end up logged in to the site. Now comes the catch, BE it DIAL UP/LAN/3G/Wi-Fi, DO NOT position your cursor in the From bar till the PLAN MY TRAVEL page is loaded completely.The moment you do so, the page vanishes, both the screen and your brain go blank at the same time.
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4.Try closing down on a particular pair of stations and keep the station codes ready, never wait for the station name to load completely.Waste of time.Also suppose you enter SC in the "from" and MAS in the "To" column you would get a result for KCG-MS Express as well due to proximity but when you try to book for that train you would be displayed another page indicating a different source and destination. So better narrow down on your trains early on.
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5. PATIENCE PATIENCE PATIENCE is the word, if your page is not loading after you click on the book option, wait for a while. Do not re-load or go back. Most of the times, waiting did the trick for me(Cheated me once in a while too of course).
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6. Do not hurry up and end up messing up your name and ID card details, make sure you enter them correctly.
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7.In my personal experience, i found Net/Mobile Banking to be the safest and fastest payment option. I did try Credit card and Debit card booking a few times, but i prefer Net banking now.
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8.Here is the most important part, however slow the page is never refresh the page or press back after your payement has been accepted TILL IT IS TRANSFERRED and you can see the PLAN MY TRAVEL page again. Initially you would see a message stating your payment is being transferred followed by a "please wait, do not refresh or reload" message. Once tumaarku message dikh gaya, then consider ticket book gaya..But till you see the PLAN MY TRAVEL page again you are still vulnerable.
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9. Never open the same account from two different browsers, also see #5 again.
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10. I hope this helps, Kindly do not curse me if this doesnt :)
Regards,
SCRF
P.S: Whatever posts are being written by me are purely scripted by me including this, would be glad if it helps, please feel free to share.