Approaching the May Day holiday, it should be the hottest period for everyone to grab tickets and buy tickets, and it should also be the hottest time for 12306.
On April 21, 2024, a netizen was about to buy a ticket home for the May Day holiday from 12306, and the netizen himself wanted to buy a ticket from Wuhan to Tianjin, but found that there were no remaining tickets, but there were still many tickets from Wuhan to Tangshan.
It stands to reason that Tianjin is a necessary stop from Wuhan to Tangshan, and if there is a ticket from Wuhan to Tangshan, it is impossible to go to Tianjin without a ticket. Netizens were very puzzled by this, and directly called the customer service hotline of 12306 to inquire about the situation.
In such a situation, the reply given by the 12306 customer service is that they need to meet the long-distance passengers first, in which case, the passengers can buy long-distance tickets.
In this way, the passenger's passenger boarding area is included in it, and the passenger can get on the bus normally, but the extra fare, 12306 is non-refundable.
Although this netizen is not very satisfied with such a reply, there is no better way. I can only buy a long-distance ticket first, and get off by myself when I get to the middle station. Netizens posted their experiences and customer service responses on the Internet, quickly attracting a large number of netizens who had the same experience, and the comment area instantly fried the pot:
"12306 is too tricky, every time I go home, I have to buy five more stations, and there are tickets at any time from the starting station to the final station. ”
"Returning home on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, there are one-third of the empty seats on the bus, but the tickets are only sold from the starting station to the final station, and the waitlist is displayed, and the ticket bought at the middle station directly shows that there is no ticket"
"There are so many long-distance travelers, just to maximize profits. ”
"If you buy a long by a short time, you won't get a refund, and if you buy a short by a long time, you have to make up the money, a typical overlord clause!"
However, in response to the various dissatisfied emotions of netizens, 12306 responded that it is not recommended that passengers buy short or long or short.
But netizens didn't buy such a statement, and directly replied: "It's not recommended to buy long times short, then you can release tickets normally?"
To be honest, 12306's answer and approach are indeed somewhat contradictory. In the case of obviously having a ticket, passengers at the intermediate station cannot buy a suitable ticket, so they can only spend some more money to buy a full ticket. This kind of practice will definitely be uncomfortable for anyone.
You want to take care of long-haul passengers, we can understand that, but short-haul passengers are not in your care?
Although 12306 claims to give priority to long-distance passengers, there are still many passengers who say that it is difficult to buy long-distance tickets even if they want to buy them! Every time it is time to grab tickets for the appointment, the moment the tickets are released, they are almost snatched up in a second, so many passengers prefer to use third-party apps to grab tickets and buy tickets.
Such a statement also resonated with many netizens, many netizens agreed that it is very difficult to grab tickets on 12306, many times the tickets are sold out immediately, even if the hand speed is fast, it is difficult to grab, many netizens have also expressed their opinions on this issue:
"If 12306 can be bought, do you think I'll use third-party software?"
"Let's put it this way, the third-party platform can give me a real ticket, 12306 is useless, I will use a third party. ”
"Just kidding, have you seen a dozen cars and not a second?"
"Third-party software can be grabbed for 48 yuan per ticket, and 12306 can't be grabbed for many days in a row, what is this concept?
"The ticket price on 12306 is 39, there is no ticket, and the third-party software 59 immediately issues the ticket, how can this be explained?"
"If the railway does not provide an interface, how can the third-party platform intervene?"
With the gradual fermentation of public opinion, 12306 responded to everyone that if there is no ticket on the official website, then there is no third-party platform, and 12306 has never authorized a third-party platform to issue train tickets.
It is undeniable that 12306 is indeed the most authoritative and official ticket purchase channel at present, and even if other third-party channels buy tickets, they also take our identity information to 12306 to buy tickets and grab tickets. If it is ugly, it is a "scalper", and if it is good, it is a "scalper" corporatization and collectivization.
Maybe sometimes, some third-party software can really help us grab tickets, but netizens also said that it will definitely be a little premium than the original price of 12306, or you need to buy an additional gas package. But after thinking about it, in order to grab the ticket, it is worth spending a few dozen dollars more.
In fact, to be fair, whether it is to use 12306 to buy tickets or third-party software to buy tickets, there is no problem, we must be which channel can help us buy tickets, we will use which, so there is no question of who is better and who is more advanced on this issue.
But some netizens said that 12306 can't buy tickets on it, but third-party platforms can easily buy it, this situation may exist, but it must be very rare, after all, 12306 official response said that as long as 12306 has no tickets, there will be no tickets on other platforms, if you are lucky enough to grab a ticket on other platforms, maybe that platform has priority to wait for tickets.
However, there is a problem that we really need to pay attention to, that is, during holidays or Chinese New Year, passengers do have difficulty in buying tickets, and some people may not be able to grab tickets even in several channels at the same time. If you can't grab it, you can only pay the money first and wait for the ticket to be replenished, so that it is possible to grab the ticket you need in the first time.
Some netizens, in order to be able to wait for tickets in the first time, can even buy many waiting tickets in a row, for fear of missing the opportunity to buy tickets. As a result, 12306 has successfully become a money saving software, and some netizens said:
"I saved more than three thousand, and four people were on reserve for two days, don't live up to it!"
"12306 You are a huge bank, every time you go home, you have to deposit at least three thousand in it, and you have to plan three routes when you go home. ”
"I've saved more than five thousand!"
I have to say that in order to successfully grab tickets, netizens have tried their best to do everything. Rao is like this, and he still has to face the dilemma of not being able to travel without a ticket. In this regard, some people joke that the fake deposit: the bank, the real deposit: 12306.
Approaching the May Day holiday, it is time again when it is difficult to buy tickets and grab tickets, and some people even proposed, "The difficulty of grabbing tickets on May Day is comparable to that of the Spring Festival!"
Regarding this statement, 12306 said that during the May Day holiday, it is impossible to predict how many people will travel, so it is impossible to determine how many trains will be opened, how many tickets will be released, and whether additional trains will be opened in the future is uncertain. Passengers can place more waitlist orders and add more trains.
However, according to the current situation, there are still many passengers who have not bought tickets to go home or travel. However, it is a special time for such a holiday, and if the number of tourists increases sharply, it is normal for the railway system to be unable to arrange it for a while.
I hope you will be calm and give the railway system some time, after all, the railway system must also hope that every passenger can travel smoothly, but in the face of the skyrocketing transportation requirements during peak hours, they are really more than enough to do it. I hope that both of us can understand each other and tolerate each other, and I also hope that netizens who have travel plans can travel smoothly this holiday.
Finally, I wish you all a happy May Day holiday in advance, so what other views do you have on this matter? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss.