Originally Posted by
superEGO
Might try a different credit card? Any that pop up secondary authentication rituals seem to struggle IME. Also, double check that you can't complete the purchase on the old site. I've done that before, where it generated the reservation correctly, but failed on the purchase.. it showed up on the old site where I was able to complete everything. YMMV
This was well before paying.
I was still doing the multi-city search for flights when I got this message.