According to the regulations that train tickets for the Spring Festival Railway will be sold 30 days in advance on the Internet and telephone booking, the train tickets for January 27, the third day of the Lunar New Year, can be bought on the 29th. Compared with previous years, the transportation capacity of this year's Spring Festival has increased, and the ticket purchase mode has increased by more yuan. The daily stable ticket sales capacity of 12306 system has increased from 15 million to 20 million. However, many popular routes are still hard to find.

With the arrival of the sales peak of the Spring Festival train tickets, some ticket grabbing software on the market has also entered the vision of more people. According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 60 ticket grabbing software operating in the market at present. Some of them directly collect money for ticket grabbing, some ask to share forwarding links to improve exposure, and even some third-party software will default to the paid ticket grabbing service, which will be "routine" if they are not careful.

Faced with the pattern of ticket grabbing software, an expert reminded that although the ticket grabbing software is theoretically faster than manual refresh, 12306 has blocked many ticket grabbing ports and launched the "official ticket grabbing" alternate function - that is, when there is no remaining ticket, 12306 will display the word "alternate" in the train number list. Passengers can select the train number and seat class according to their needs. After the successful payment of the standby advance payment, if there is a ticket matching the demand, the system will automatically generate the paid order and return the difference; If not, the system will refund the advance payment in full. So, who can better use this alternate function or the ticket grabbing software on the market? If you use ticket grabbing software, what routines should you be careful about?

　 There are nearly 60 ticket grabbing software on the market

It's still a scalper business to collect money and grab tickets

Spring Festival travel data shows that from the beginning of the new year, the railway will enter the peak period of pre festival ticket grabbing. Among them, the most popular ticket is from December 26 to New Year's Eve.

Many passengers find that the tickets they want to buy are "instantly lost". They find software that claims to be able to grab tickets and try their luck. Only then do they find that these software routines are repeated. They have to pay first if they can grab tickets. Ticket grabbing at ordinary speed, fast speed and light speed. Different ticket grabbing speeds correspond to different prices, but when there is no ticket, there is still no ticket. Ms. Guo in Beijing has used a variety of ticket grabbing software, without any effect:

Ms. Guo: "All high-speed trains have been selected, which means that I have already selected these contents before the ticket is released. When I placed the order, I raised the level to the highest level of VIP. I didn't get all the tickets for three consecutive days. Later, I continued to grab tickets, and nothing happened for more than half a month."

Ms. Guo said that if you look carefully at the ticket grabbing software, you will find many paid services that are checked by default, and you will spend money unjustly:

Ms. Guo: "When you choose to grab tickets at a low speed, it will help you add a 50 yuan acceleration package. It's hard to notice that it will increase the cost for you. When you click the confirmation button, it actually adds 50 yuan by default, and there is no increase in the price on this order."

However, some users said that it is much more convenient to spend money to grab tickets than to keep the 12306 website:

"Although it takes a long time to buy the software, it can finally help me to buy tickets. If I don't pay more or only use the ticket price, it is difficult to buy."

Yang Kun, Deputy Secretary General of the Interactive Media Industry Alliance of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the ticket grabbing software can constantly refresh the 12306 server, which is faster than the user's manual refresh.

According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 60 software on the market that claim to be able to rob tickets. They are still collecting money to rob tickets under the banner of "serving users". Those who claim to be able to grab tickets for free require users to send software connections to multiple relatives and friends to form "virus marketing", which costs no money and takes time.

　 12306: Ticket grabbing software grabs refund

I can't get money when I really don't have tickets

Shan Xinghua, director of 12306 Technology Department of China Academy of Railway Sciences, said that because the use of ticket grabbing software will slow down the speed of other manual query users, which will lead to system delay, they have blocked several channels for ticket grabbing software to protect users' rights and interests:

Shan Xinghua: "From a certain point of view (ticket grabbing software) really caters to the needs of passengers, but there are several problems with third-party ticket grabbing software. First, a large number of system refreshes consume 12306 resources, which will lead to system service paralysis. Second, the handling rules of ticket return are also inconsistent with the railway standard charging standards, and passengers will be overcharged for ticket return fees or ticket change fees. Third, the passenger information retained by the third party ticket grabbing software may leak the passenger privacy information, which has certain security risks. "

Shan Xinghua stressed that the ticket grabbing software only grabs the refund of other users. When there is no ticket, it can't be grabbed even if it costs money. In addition to shielding the interface of ticket grabbing software, 12306 launched the alternate function of "official ticket grabbing" at the beginning of this year, which directly grabs tickets in the system. Other ticket grabbing software will have no tickets to grab:

Shan Xinghua: "In 2019, the function of waiting for tickets will be launched. If there is no ticket, the demand can be submitted to our 12306 system. If the system encounters a ticket returned by passengers, or a ticket added by the railway according to the train capacity, it can give priority to those who have already queued up."

Web version 12306 alternate function operation page

Mobile 12306 alternate function operation page

Source: CCTV News

Editor in charge: Wang Shuai