On April 21, it was reported that the May Day holiday is coming, and the difficulty of finding a train ticket has once again become the focus of attention, and everyone has hollowed out their minds in order to buy tickets, and some people have even set their sights on the 12306 public account.
Recently, a number of netizens said that they sent a large number of help-seeking messages to the 12306 public account "crazy", and they successfully bought train tickets.
According to the screenshots posted by these netizens, they kept sending messages in the 12306 official account dialog box, asking for a ticket to go home "with tears in their eyes", and the replies they got were all in some standard formats, or there was no reply, but in the end, the waitlist was successful and the ticket was in hand, so they all sighed that it was really useful to "go crazy".
However, some netizens said that they were crazy for a few days without success.
In this regard, the 12306 staff said that this method is not feasible, the so-called "ticket grabbing secret" does not exist, and the mechanism of standby tickets is that when a passenger refunds the ticket, the system will cash the ticket according to the order of the standby order.
Some netizens successfully grabbed tickets after "going crazy", only to happen to encounter other passengers to refund their tickets, or have a new train.
Regarding this matter, some netizens pointed out pointedly: This is survivor bias.
China Railway Group has said that the success rate of 12306 waitlist cashing is more than 75%, and the waitlist success rate can be increased by submitting multiple waitlist orders with a combination of "date, train, and seat" and extending the waitlist cashing time.
