Recently, as the Spring Festival is approaching, 12306 ushered in the annual Spring Festival ticket war. However, many people find that 12306 seconds of light and many third-party platforms have a large number of high-priced tickets. As a result, many people have questioned whether 12306 has insider trading. and then aroused great attention and heated discussions among netizens.
It is reported that the 2024 Spring Festival will start today and end on March 5, a total of 40 days. Today, January 26, you can buy train tickets for Chinese New Year's Eve. As a result, many people entered the system in advance and waited for the moment when the tickets were released. The result can be imagined, it is still difficult to find a ticket, and most of the tickets are seconds, so many people are questioning whether there is an insider. The reason is that there are some third-party platforms where you can buy tickets at a markup.
First of all, let's talk about why many tickets are sold out in seconds as soon as they go on sale.
It can be said that many people have a deep understanding of Miaoguang, however, many people still have the mentality of trying it out. The results were as useless as ever.
So what is the reason why it is difficult to find a ticket and a second time?
In fact, it's not that there is an insider, and it's not that there are too many people robbing it, but that there are no tickets at all.
According to the 12306 ticketing rules, a large number of long-distance tickets will generally be reserved first, especially the tickets from the starting station to the terminal station will have a large number of reservations, and the interval tickets, especially the extremely short-distance tickets of two or three stations, will basically not be released, which is also the fundamental reason why many people feel that the second light.
To put it bluntly, the railway department still has to give priority to the cost-effectiveness and vacancy rate of tickets. If a large number of short-haul tickets are released, if no one buys the second half of the tickets in the follow-up, it will lead to a waste of a large number of tickets and capacity. Obviously, this is something that the railway sector will never allow.
Of course, if the demand for long-distance tickets is insufficient, the reserved long-distance tickets will be turned into short-distance tickets for the waitlist to purchase progressively.
I have to say that most people don't buy tickets for the starting and ending stations, which leads many people to mistakenly think that there are scalpers grabbing tickets, but in fact, they don't put a section ticket at all or only put a small number of tickets.
Secondly, let's talk about the high-priced tickets of third-party platforms.
Many people have the experience of buying tickets at high prices on third-party platforms such as Ctrip. For this reason, some people question whether there is insider trading?
In fact, it is not difficult to see from our careful analysis that Ctrip's so-called high-priced tickets are not exactly the same as the number and section of trains purchased by 12306. Either buy a few more stops or transfer.
For buying a few more stops, either buy a few stops forward to the starting station, or buy a few stops back to the terminal. The purpose of this is clearly to cater to the 12306 ticketing rules. This has already been said.
For transfers, there are mainly two types, one is the different sections of the same train, for example, although there is no ticket for the ticket from Beijing to Xi'an, you can buy tickets from Beijing to Zhengzhou and Zhengzhou to Xi'an respectively. There is also a traditional transfer, where you buy tickets for different trains but transfer at the same station.
Of course, either way, it will be more expensive than the total amount of normal direct tickets, which is the fundamental reason why many people feel that third-party fares are expensive.
In addition, many third-party platforms will also provide fast, high-speed, light-speed and other different ticket-grabbing packages and personalized one-to-one or seat selection services, of course, these services are realized through the automation of background programs on the one hand, and there is no problem of artificial reselling, on the other hand, since the service is provided, it is natural to charge a certain fee.
Of course, the service fee here is obviously fundamentally different from scalpers selling tickets at high prices. To put it bluntly, this kind of service is a reasonable use of the rule and does not involve illegality, and scalping is obviously illegal.
At the same time, many people say that third-party platforms do not have personal information, how to buy tickets?
Anyone who has used a third-party platform knows that you need to log in to the 12306 website to start buying tickets when you buy tickets for the first time. In other words, the source of passenger information in the ticket purchase on the third-party platform is still in 12306, and the relevant information will be queried in the 12306 background after the purchase is successful. Obviously, there is no question of falsifying passenger information.
In addition, many people are complaining about the problem of 12306 system crashing. In terms of the overall experience of the past two years, it can be said that it has been much better than before, and only in rare cases will there be problems of system abnormalities and network abnormalities. Of course, objectively speaking, there is no doubt that the 12306 system itself does have a lot to improve and optimize.
It has to be said that due to the special national conditions of the mainland and the extremely high population base, there will be very large concurrency and data at special nodes in special periods, which obviously requires relevant technical personnel to continue to optimize and upgrade software and hardware. In addition, there is clearly a long way to go when it comes to processing massive amounts of data.
Finally, let's take a look at who is maliciously hyping 12306 seconds, and third-party platforms sell tickets at high prices. Boiled down, there are mainly the following categories.
First, bad self-media.
Recently, there have been a lot of articles on the Internet that maliciously hype the so-called insider story of 12306's ticket purchase. In order to rub hot spots and gain traffic, these people ignore the facts, maliciously hype, and say that some accidental things are common phenomena. There are also some self-media people who are noncommittal to the official statement, but they are convinced of a lot of gossip, especially the rumors created by the water army, and many people have maliciously attacked 12306 on this basis. It can be said that these people seem to have no bottom line for the sake of traffic.
The second is the water army.
I don't know when it started, a large number of so-called ticket buying insiders about 12306 appeared on the Internet. These inside stories are basically unsubstantiated and do not stand up to any scrutiny.
Obviously, these are smoke bombs made by the trolls. For these people, the interests are always above all else.
The third is the indignant youth.
The Spring Festival is approaching, and many angry young people have also come out to brush up on their sense of existence. It is still a familiar taste, familiar style. Not only hated the rich, hated the official and hated the society, but also often made some extreme remarks. It has the meaning of destroying the earth.
Fourth, people who didn't buy tickets.
For these people, it would have been understandable to not buy a ticket and make a few complaints. However, some people have been misled by the trolls and some bad self-media, and have questioned the normal behavior and methods of official ticket purchases, and even have become a tool for many people to make money. It can be said to be both pathetic and pitiful.
Finally, for the matter of 12306 seconds of light, we still have to look at it rationally.
On the one hand, according to the refund rules, there is no handling fee for refunds made 7 days before departure, so if you don't have a ticket, you can buy it 7 days before the departure, and you may actually get a ticket.
On the other hand, according to the ticketing rules, the remaining remaining tickets for long-distance travel are generally released three days before departure, so it is also possible to purchase tickets three days before departure.
In addition, there is no need to hype about third-party platforms, these platforms are obviously fundamentally different from scalping. We still have a clear understanding of this.