Preparing for the May Day holiday, the high-speed rail tickets during the May Day period have all been sold out, have you grabbed the high-speed rail tickets for May Day travel? Are you still lamenting that the tickets are difficult to grab and can't be grabbed as usual on holidays, but why can others buy them, but you can't buy them, do you understand the rules of the official website for high-speed rail ticket sales?
Why can't you grab tickets when waiting time on the 12306 official website, and clicking in is sold out and waitlisted? Some people suspect that the official website hides the tickets and does not sell them all, and some people suspect that the official website transfers the tickets to the third-party ticket-grabbing software, because it is easy to grab the tickets after the third-party ticket-grabbing software increases the price.
At the end of last year, the official website clarified on this matter: it is a fact that third-party ticket-grabbing software is easier to grab tickets than on the official website, because third-party ticket-grabbing software will use the rules of ticket grabbing, and there is no situation where tickets are hidden and not sold and transferred to third-party software.
Why can't third-party ticket-grabbing software be grabbed on the official website, and what ticket-grabbing rules are used by these software?
Passengers can make an appointment in advance for tickets on the third-party ticket-grabbing software, which is to entrust the software to help you grab tickets when the tickets are sold on the official website. What is this advantage? That is, it can refresh the official thousands of times in 1 second, that is, from the time before the sale to the time when the sale goes on sale, it can help you refresh and grab tickets thousands of times on the official website every second.
If someone grabs a ticket on the official website, from the sale to the point to grab the ticket, if the reaction time of the person and the mobile phone is 0.5 seconds, and the time of the third-party software is only 0.01 seconds, or even less. For example, if the ticket goes on sale at 8 o'clock, the time for people to click in to grab the ticket is 8:00:0.5, and the third-party software grabs the ticket at 8:00:0.01.
The frequency of third-party software refresh and ticket grabbing can capture (grab) the moment the official ticket is released, so how can the reaction of people and mobile phones be compared with third-party software.
When you can't grab a ticket, the third-party ticket-grabbing software can directly change it to a waitlist for you, and whoever places an order first will give priority to whoever has a ticket. Or help you search for short-distance tickets, get on the bus first and then make up for the later tickets, or provide you with a transfer plan.
The speed of third-party ticket-grabbing software is much faster than that of people, so it is easier to grab tickets or waitlist tickets on third-party ticket-grabbing software than on the official website.
Third-party ticket grabbing software is not for you to grab for nothing, in addition to the ticket price, whoever gives the extra ticket grabbing price is high, will give priority to helping whoever grabs the ticket. Third-party ticket-grabbing software has caused the high cost of traveling by high-speed rail and damaged the credibility of the official website. Some people have always strongly suggested that the official website directly ban third-party ticket-grabbing software, but for some reason, the official website has not adopted everyone's suggestions.
Recently, the official website has also acknowledged the fact that high-speed rail tickets are issued first, and long-distance tickets are released.
Under normal circumstances, high-speed rail will give priority to long-distance tickets, and then release short-distance tickets according to demand, saying that the reason for this is to ensure that long-distance passengers can buy tickets first, and at the same time avoid the waste of long-distance tickets caused by the excessive release of short-distance tickets.
After many travelers know the rules of the official website to give priority to long-distance tickets, they will choose to buy long-distance tickets directly when it is difficult to find a ticket on holidays, because long-distance tickets or full-journey tickets are easier to grab. For example, Guangzhou (the starting station) → Nanning station (the final station), the stops on the way are Wuzhou, Tengxian, Pingnan, and the passengers who get off the train at the halfway station directly grab the whole ticket, don't they think the whole ticket is expensive? No, the passengers are more afraid that they can't buy a ticket to go home.
The ticket price of the high-speed rail from Guangzhou to Nanning is about 250 yuan, if you can't buy a ticket for Wuzhou, Tengxian and Pingnan, you have to take a hitchhiker, the hitchhiker fare is about 300 yuan, in addition to the fare, sometimes the driver also asks for additional high-speed fees. The highway is often jammed on holidays, and it takes about two hours to take the high-speed rail, and it is good to take a hitchhike for seven or eight hours to get home, and the comfort is so much worse than the high-speed rail, especially the people who will suffer from motion sickness.
In such a comparison, it is very cost-effective to buy a ticket for the whole journey in a short distance, and many people can accept it. As a result, many people buy full tickets and get off the train halfway, and there are many empty seats in the second half of the train. Therefore, many people who can't buy tickets when they get on the train to the terminal on the way see this phenomenon, and they will complain, thinking that the high-speed rail would rather be empty than sell tickets to passengers who get on the train halfway.
The priority release of long-distance tickets for high-speed rail ticket sales may have been a good intention, but in practice, it backfired.
Really long-distance passengers can't buy tickets, and short-distance passengers spend "unjust money" to buy long-distance short-haul rides, resulting in a large number of vacant seats on the second half of the high-speed rail, and passengers who want to get on the train in the middle can't buy tickets, which is how bad the ticketing rules are.
It is recommended to cancel the rule of giving priority to long-distance tickets, there are so many people who travel on holidays, and after those who take a short distance get off, there will naturally be people who get on the bus halfway to make up for it. The fear of avoiding the over-release of short-haul tickets and the waste of long-haul fares is completely redundant, and this rule lacks consideration of the actual situation.
On holidays, people who travel short distances should also travel by high-speed rail, so please treat them fairly.