Recently, 12306** has become the target of criticism from netizens. Every year during the Spring Festival, a large number of migrant workers look forward to buying train tickets home through this platform, but they often encounter the embarrassment of "no tickets". And on some third parties**, they can easily buy tickets for a little more. This phenomenon has aroused dissatisfaction and suspicion among netizens, and some people even joked that this is some kind of collusion between the official and scalpers.
This situation is bothersome for many people who need to buy tickets, because it is becoming more and more difficult to buy tickets through formal channels, while ** tickets on third-party platforms are readily available. This can't help but make people question whether the ticketing policy of 12306** is deliberately selling tickets to scalpers?
Actually, I would say that this view is very naïve. We can't blame this problem on the 12306 platform or the corrosion of capital. The impartiality and fairness of the 12306 platform are guaranteed, and it will not change because of the influence of capital. On the contrary, this problem is more due to the speculation of some greedy capitalists and third-party platforms. They exploit loopholes in the rules to obtain unfair benefits, while ignoring the rights and interests of consumers at large.
12306 is a national-level non-profit platform that plays a vital role at critical moments such as the Spring Festival. Since the Spring Festival travels involve hundreds of millions of people, any small change could trigger huge social repercussions and accountability. This is why few people dare to do anything at this time, because once something goes wrong, the consequences are unimaginable. 12306 treats third-party platforms and individuals equally, and there is no special treatment, let alone privileges for third-party platforms.
But why is it so hard for us ordinary people to buy tickets? This is mainly because the platform has powerful algorithms and more advanced AI technology. In such a competitive environment, the ability of ordinary people to grab tickets is obviously not able to compete with the platform. When 12306 released tickets again, the third-party platform had already accurately sorted out and ** the identity information, time, location, train number and other information of all ticket buyers in advance. They also reserve positions and markup strategies in advance, which puts them in a state of being ready to go. Individual ticket buyers often need to wait for 1-2 minutes due to the slow speed of ticket grabbing, so the third-party platform will seize the opportunity to use their ticket grabbing technology to successfully grab tickets for ticket buyers in just 30 seconds. In this way, a large number of tickets have been booked by third-party platforms, and ordinary people have long been out of tickets when they go in to see them.
It should be pointed out that the third-party platform does not violate the rules or operate illegally, and their success is more due to their professionalism and intelligence. This also reminds us of a scene like a crowd of people queuing up in a cafeteria at noon, when someone jumps in line and is the first to eat, although it may trigger moral condemnation, but in reality there is no better way. Therefore, we can only accept this reality and look forward to the future development of technology to bring more opportunities for us ordinary people to buy tickets.
What do you think? I think this may be due to an issue with the ticket distribution mechanism of 12306**. In a period of high traffic such as the Spring Festival, the platform needs to adopt a more scientific and reasonable strategy to allocate ticket resources to protect the rights and interests of the majority of passengers. At the same time, the supervision of third-party platforms also needs to be strengthened urgently to curb scalping and maintain market order. Only in this way can we make sure that everyone who needs to go home can buy a ticket smoothly and spend a warm and peaceful festival together.