Originally Posted by
Concerto
For example, this Summer I did Montreux to Dusseldorf for €14.25! You'd never get a price like that booking on the Swiss SBB site!
At one point you could book a one-way from Zürich HB to a nearby but different station, say Zürich airport via Bern and only have to pay the fare between the HB and the airport. They fixed that loophole pretty quickly.