Travelling Woes

Online Ticketing woes
This is about the woes one can have when one falls into th trap of online ticket booking with travel sites like makemytrip, cleartrip, yatra etc. How these people hoodwink us into believing that they are the cheapest for booking online air tickets.- What a joke??
I was fooled but you should not..
I booked two tickets from cleartrip.com for 5500 including taxes for Jet airways jaipur to mumbai and i was happy that I got the best rates But I was in for lotta surprises- read on.
I wrongly entered 22 November instead of 23rd November.
So i thought now i will be charged for my mistake and readied to pay for the same. So i called cleartrip office- An ever pleasant voice executive explained" Sir, there are no tickets available for 23rd November flight in Economy class and we will have to upgrade you and you will have to pay airline and also cleartrip for cancellation charges and total cost of your tour which was 5500 would come to 12500 Rs. I was boggled and asked them what else can I do- can I preserve my tickets for some further journey- She said sir, when booking through us, your next journey would always be in higher class and these are OUR RULES."
I was disturbed with these arcane rules. I called Jet airways office and There another sweet voice trie to loot me and said sir, tickets are available for next day but it will cost you total 8500 for two tickets- i was desperate to go and I said ok do this- Sorry sir, you will have to come to our office to change them- THIS TOO AFTER I HAD BOOKED TICKETS ONLINe.
I went to airport in morning and detailed them my irony- With all clicks on comp she asked me to pay 1500 rs. more and get new tickets!!!!!!!! So i ended up paying 7000 for my journey of 5500 But was happy that i saved money- had it been for such arcane rules and untrained staff on phone- I would have been in loss of some money.
SO GET THE FACTS RIGHT- always book tickets directly if doing it online- Go directly to airlines website and do it- do not let middleman spoil your journey at any cost.