How do 12306 and third-party platforms issue tickets? What kind of cooperation they had before is a mystery to many netizens. But the only thing that is clear is that 12306 must have agreed to the system access of the third-party booking platform, otherwise it would be impossible for the booking platform to get the ticket. On this basis, passengers are hotly discussing two questions, and everyone thinks, can they get a suitable answer?
First: Why does it show that there are no tickets on 12306, but there are still tickets on the third-party booking platform, and you can still buy tickets?
Second: that is, some users now report that they have bought high-speed rail tickets for the same train number and the same day and seat. It's just that one is bought on 12306, and the other is bought on a third-party platform at a higher price, so what kind of weirdness does this cover?
When every wanderer who is out of the country faces the Spring Festival and goes home, the smooth purchase of tickets becomes the focus. But many netizens really found that as soon as the tickets on 12306 were released, they were immediately sold out. At this time, if you go to a third-party platform and find that there are still tickets, then if you buy the platform's ** or increase the price, you may be able to buy tickets.
Could it be that 12306 cooperates with the platform and wants to earn more service fees? In fact, at this point, it may be a bit wronged 12306. These platforms can take advantage of technical advantages and algorithm advantages to smoothly grab those tickets. But is this really fair for ordinary people?
The technical principle is this, after 12306 releases tickets, third-party platforms may have an advantage in grabbing standby tickets. They used a large number of ID numbers stored in their system to grab tickets for a large number of popular locations first, but did not pay for the time being, and only snatched these ticket purchase qualifications in place. When people place orders to buy tickets on these platforms, the third-party platform releases a certain percentage of tickets and adds the real ticket buyers to the waitlist in advance, so that the success rate of ticket grabbing is very high.
For example, just like a sprint race, a third-party platform is like Bolt, the king of sprinting, although the gun starts at the same time to start running, but who among the ordinary people can outrun Bolt? Is this method of using technical advantages to obtain ticket sources, as well as various patchwork itineraries through algorithms, or short tickets and long sitting, considered a kind of IT technical cheating? What is the difference between this and quantitative trading on the a** market? Isn't it reduced to the gluttony of these institutions?
Now there are still passengers who have found that they have bought two tickets for the same train and the same seat on the same day. Xiao Zhang, a passenger from Guangdong, said that he bought a C7616 high-speed rail train ticket from Zhongshan North Station to Guangzhou South Railway Station on January 31. As a result, when I got on the bus, I found that an uncle had exactly the same ticket as his, except for the different names. It's just that the way for the two to buy is to buy from the official website of 12306, and the other is to buy from a third-party platform at a higher price.
Coincidentally, other passengers have had similar situations, finding the conductor to determine that both tickets are genuine, and finally arranging a seat on the train for another passenger. The reporter interviewed Guangzhou 12306, and the staff said that it is impossible to sell tickets on the official platform of the railway. However, it is possible that the third-party booking platform will modify the customer information and send it to the passenger after grabbing the ticket. However, there was a situation of double tickets without modification on the railway platform.
But we can think about it, isn't this equivalent to a third-party platform that also has various functions of the railway background? Then they can use the stored ID card information to grab a large number of tickets at the time of the 12306 invoice, and then resell them to other passengers who increase the fare by modifying the information.
So how can a third-party platform have the function of the official backend of the railway? Is this compliant? Is this legitimate? Now it's really time to fix it. Isn't that a very unfair practice? And isn't there a collusion of interests? 12306 responded that two passengers bought tickets for the same day