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Today, train tickets for October 1 go on sale.
During every long holiday, it will be difficult to grab train tickets. How can I improve the success rate of ticket grabbing? What should I pay attention to when grabbing tickets? Please keep this ticket grabbing guide.
These methods can increase the success rate of ticket purchases
Every time there is a long holiday, it will be difficult to grab a train ticket, and the following tips can improve the success rate of ticket purchase.
For passengers who purchase train tickets online (12306 mobile app), first of all, pay attention to the starting time. Passengers need to check the specific time of ticket purchase according to the station where they purchased their tickets and prepare in advance to avoid missing the first time to purchase tickets. Passengers can open the official website of 12306, click on the "starting time" under the "information inquiry" column, and then select the starting date and starting station for inquiry. Second, be ready to pay. Payment must be completed within 30 minutes when purchasing tickets online, and if the payment is not made within the time limit, the ticket will be automatically cancelled.
The pre-sale period of train tickets is 15 days, in order to prevent passengers from missing the start time, the railway 12306 App marks the time outside the pre-sale period with the word "reminder", click "set reminder", and you can set an alarm clock reminder in the mobile phone calendar.
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In addition, passengers who have not purchased tickets for the first time can purchase tickets on the standby through the "Standby Ticket Purchase" service function on the 12306 website and mobile app. Since 0:00 on January 11, the railway 12306 website (including the mobile client, the same below) has optimized and upgraded the standby ticket purchase function, increased the number of standby orders and alternative plans, expanded the range of waitlist order cashing time options, and temporarily allocated new passenger train seats to passengers who have submitted standby orders, which will further improve the success rate of passenger standby ticket purchase.
The first is to increase the number of waitlist orders. The number of pending waitlist bookings that can be submitted per passenger has been increased from 2 to 6, and a maximum of 9 passengers can be added to each order.
The second is to increase the number of alternatives. When submitting a standby order, passengers can choose 2 adjacent travel dates, and each date can choose 5 combinations of "train number + seat", up to a maximum of 10 combinations. After the optimization and upgrade, passengers can choose any 3 travel dates during the pre-sale period, and can choose up to 60 combinations of "date + trains", and each train can choose multiple seats.
The third is to expand the range of options for waiting order fulfillment time. The original cut-off time for standby orders was 2 hours before departure, but after the optimization and upgrade, it was adjusted to 20 minutes before departure, and passengers can choose to modify the cut-off time according to the actual situation in a wider range.
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Fourth, the temporary new passenger train seats will be allocated to passengers who have submitted standby orders. When submitting a standby order, passengers can choose to accept the purchase of new passenger train tickets that meet their travel needs, such as the temporary addition of passenger trains by the railway department, when the tickets are on sale, the railway 12306 will automatically give priority to the passengers who have submitted the standby order, and passengers do not need to manually query the information of the additional train before purchasing tickets.
is also a waitlist, why some orders are successfully cashed early, and some orders are quiet and silent? The estimated success rate is high or low, how to increase the success rate? According to the 12306 official WeChat account previously introduced, three tips to help passengers buy tickets successfully, the first skill is to increase the number of standby trains, taking Beijing to Harbin standby ticket purchase as an example, waiting for a train, the estimated success rate is 45%, waiting for five trains, the estimated success rate is 80%. The second trick is to open the "Accept new train" button when waiting for a train, fill in the required train requirements, and when there is a new train, the system will automatically redeem the ticket for the passenger. The third tip is to increase the waitlist orders for different travel dates, which is more likely to increase the success rate of cashing.
It should be noted that the normal standby button is displayed in blue, if the waitlist button is gray, it means that the current waitlist of the selected train is full. Passengers are requested to check the standby status of the train at any time or choose another date, train number or seat to purchase a standby ticket. In addition, there is no additional charge for the official waitlist ticket service at 12306.
There is a risk of third-party ticket grabbing
The railway department once again reminded third parties of the risk of ticket grabbing.
The relevant person in charge said that some third-party platforms use technical means to automate "seckill" ticket grabbing, use various words to create an atmosphere where you can't grab tickets without going through third-party platforms and buying "acceleration packages" and "paid members", inducing passengers to "buy short and long" and "make up tickets on the train", and also use a large number of "12306" trademarks in user agreements and service products to mislead passengers into thinking that they have a cooperative relationship with railway 12306. These behaviors directly affect passengers' fair right to purchase tickets, increase passengers' ticket purchase expenses, and even cause problems such as the leakage of passengers' personal information.
In the process of ticket grabbing on the third-party platform, there are also high-frequency attacks on the railway 12306 platform, endangering the stable operation of the railway 12306 platform, disrupting the order of railway ticketing, and endangering the safety of railway transportation.
The railway department reminds that the railway 12306 website (including the mobile client) is the only official train ticket online ticketing platform of China Railway, and has never authorized any third-party platform to sell train tickets. The railway 12306 platform is committed to providing fair, just, safe and convenient ticketing services for the majority of passengers, without any additional charges such as ticketing acceleration packages, ticketing membership fees, and carriage seat selection fees. Please be sure to purchase tickets through the official channels of the railway, look for the official website of 12306 and the official APP of "Railway 12306", and confirm that the payee of the ticket is "China Railway Network Co., Ltd.", so as to avoid not receiving the refund when you need to refund or change the ticket in the future.
Comprehensive sources: CCTV News, CCTV Network, The Paper, China Railway