Nearly 60 software software rolls out a paid ticket-taking service called "bow cows" to speed up the buy-in
Currently, the ticket-kipping software remains the option for many people to purchase train tickets during the spring run. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 60 ticket-taking software currently operating on the market has introduced a reimbursable ticket-taking service. The purchasers indicated that, in cases where the number of tickets was sufficient, some third-party software would also default on the $20 acceleration package。
The method of operation of the ticket-taking software is to use a higher bandwidth for frequent updating of the number of trips where surplus tickets may occur, in order to give priority to the robbery once the tickets are issued. There is an urgent need to regulate issues such as possible leaks of information in ticket-taking software, hidden fee traps, etc。
The “cow” will agree to hold tickets by default until 24 hours before the dispatch, without any guarantee that 100 per cent will be paid. Substitutes with deposits require more complex requirements, including hegemonic clauses such as the “non-refundance of the self-bargaining security deposit”. There are even a few black-minded “yellows” who, after taking a deposit, buy tickets directly from other third-party purchase channels and earn the corresponding profits if they do not。
With the advent of spring, the anxious “yellows” came to the end of the war. Starting on 10 january and ending on 18 february 2020, a few dozen days short determined to a large extent their one-year “harvest”. After all, for those returning home, the train tickets for the hot route remain “highly expensive”。
From the data published on the 12306 network, half a month ago, the smoke of the war was concealed。
On 21 december, the railway spring ticket-taking war began to climax: internet and telephone bookings began to sell tickets for 19 january 2020 (twenty-fifth of the month of the year), tickets for the station window, railway ticket drop-outs and a self-service ticket machine for 17 january 2020 (twenty-three of the month of the year)。
If you were told there were no tickets at the train station 10 years ago, you would only complain that you came too late. In 2010, with the launch of the 12306 website, the availability of train tickets was linked to luck. Until a few years later, when you looked at the unusually high-intensity “accelerator pack” and the vip on the phone, you began to wonder if you had spent enough。
From “waiting” to “waiting” to “robbering”, the spring transport of the world's largest “migration” has generated huge demand for tickets. It is surprising to find that, instead of changing the status quo, technological progress has become a “fat” desired by some outlaws. Journalists investigated this。
Internet tickets are popular. All
According to media reports, on 12 december the railway sector began to issue tickets for 10 january 2020 (january 16), on which date a total of 12,561,000 tickets were sold across the country. On the first day of the sale, 1,0625,000 tickets were sold on the railway network, 040,000 on the telephone and 84. 6 per cent on the railway network. Of the total number of tickets sold on railway network 12306, 9,455,000 were sold by mobile phone clients, representing 89 per cent of the tickets sold on the internet。
Currently, the ticket-kipping software remains the option for many people to purchase train tickets during the spring run. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 60 ticket-taking software currently operating on the market has introduced a paid ticket-taking service or requires the sharing of forward links to increase exposure. The purchasers indicated that, in cases where the number of tickets was very high, some third-party software would also default on a $20 acceleration package, which was very hidden and was paid for by “sets” if it was not noticed。
A recent survey by journalists of 100 university students showed that at least 60 per cent of them used the “accelerator pack” to rob tickets. Fifty per cent of the population felt that the acceleration of the robbery was not inherently different from the cow's votedown。
“the rationale for the ticket-taking software is to send requests on an ongoing basis, whereas the 12306 network has to send requests manually, with time lags.” wang ze fong, who worked in zhejiang, told reporters that he had his home in anhuizhou and that he had never paid to buy an accelerator bag, that “i had not previously had to pick it up several times, but i did not get a ticket, so i would change the itinerary or travel by other means of transport. In general, however, tickets to the cantons are more difficult to obtain, and hard or no tickets are less difficult to obtain, so there is little need to buy the accelerator packages”。
Wang han wai, from shanxi lu-lian, currently attends university in beijing and has told journalists that, based on his experience and that of fellow students around him, he can buy tickets without paying for them if he needs to use the ticket-taking software. They often use the method of sharing points of acceleration packages with each other to rob them, “if they do not have to speed them up, they rarely get the tickets”。
“we have discussed this issue among our classmates, and it is generally accepted that this is a result of the `prisoner effect'. All of us will accelerate each other and all of us will get accelerated packages, which will allow everyone to use them.” wang hanway said that the question was whether the acceleration package had any effect, so he speculated that if everyone did not use the acceleration package, it might also be possible to get tickets, which was a crowd-driven effect of the group and could be the deliberate action of a third-party platform。
With regard to the “alternate ticket” model, which started online last year, “i think it's more economical to use official platforms to make alternate tickets, and normally to be the first to have a refund. So now we're all using the 12306 net alternate ticket or ticket-robbing software。
During the interviews, several industry sources argued that the operating principle of the ticketing software was to use a higher bandwidth for frequent updating of the number of trips where there might be residual tickets, in order to give priority to the robbery once the tickets were issued. Although the same fees are charged, unlike the very nature of the higher price of a cow's car fare, “the ticket is not a cow”. However, there is still a need to regulate issues such as possible leaks of information in ticket-taking software and hidden charges traps。
It's not safe to buy a cow
Journalists have also found new ticket-taking services on social platforms — accelerating the collection of tickets, mostly for payment。
Journalists in the qq group search for key words such as “train ticket acceleration” and “train ticket robbery”, i. E., e. G., eject a large amount of information about train ticket robbery. On entering a group of qq qs, a user named “a train ticket surrogate” asked, “do you need to buy a train ticket?” the other party asserted that regardless of the face value of the train tickets, the cost of the replacement purchase was $45, which was paid after the purchase order had been successful and no cost was charged。
“a train ticket buy-in” indicates that he used a ticket-buying software that cost more than 3,000 people, with a success rate of over 80 per cent, “more sophisticated than the platforms you use” and claims to have more than a dozen to dozens of deals a day and to be able to get it. Among the chats in the qq q group are also advertisements by such surrogates, and some users help each other to speed up the news of the robbery。
On the morning of 22 december, journalists successfully joined a group of qqs, known as “x-x train tickets to speed up the process”, which had gathered hundreds of people and was growing. In this group of qqqs, there are up to 20 good friend support links in five seconds from various ticket-taking software. The group announcement shows that it can be guaranteed within 30 minutes to reach the maximum speed and light speed levels, but it must be added and paid $10, and the group owners will be invited to another group called “xx refuelling group”。
The “xx refuelling group” group announcement shows that in this group, some platform-priced links can also be sent to the group. According to the group owner, every spring shipment is hard to obtain, and to reach the level of a speeding ticket, 40 yuan/part of an acceleration package is required, and only 10 dollars is required here to quickly reach the level of a speeding ticket。
The group leader told the press that “10 dollars to fill you with 30 people”, i. E. At the speed of the ticket, but that “there is no guarantee that the ticket will be taken, only to get you to that level and then to see luck”。
And this sentence has become an exoneration clause for a number of “yellows” — not guaranteeing 100 per cent of the votes, and now the robbery is tacitly held 24 hours before the dispatch. Although the criteria for each “yellow” are different, everyone has the same calibre and it is none of their business to take the list first and get the tickets。
Substitutes with deposits are more complex, including the hegemonic clause of “successful deposit of self-help”. Netizens report, and even a few black-minded “yellows” take deposits, obtain information about the purchase of tickets, buy tickets directly from other third-party sources, earn the corresponding profits when they do, and if they fail to do so, they do so。
The price tables given by the various “cows” show that the cost of ticketing varies from $40 to $150 during the current spring period, divided into deposit and no-coup purchases. According to media reports, the rental price of an independent billing software varies from $8,000 to $12,000 per month at industry prices, and 120 tickets are required to cover the costs if the bill price is $100 per ticket。
Old people don't know how to rob
While many measures have been introduced in the railway sector for the “primary army” workers of the spring transport, it is true that most of them, owing to their level of education and schedules, are not easy to obtain a suitable return ticket。
In the survey, many of the migrant workers interviewed indicated that the fastest online method of buying tickets was not easy for them and was rarely used。
On 20 december, beijing began to freeze hands, but master li, 53 years old, insisted that he would come to beijing west station to buy a spring train ticket to henan. When the journalist met him, he had just bought a hard-sealed ticket from beijing west to zhengzhou on 10 january next year at $93。
Asked why he came to the station window to buy tickets instead of online, master lee said, “there are lots of cars and lots of them, and i don't understand them. When you come to the window to buy a ticket, you can ask the conductor directly, and they'll tell you more clearly, and you'll get the ticket on the spot, and you'll get it。
On the same day, master lu, in his security uniform, also arrived at beijing west station. He told reporters that he was not very good at buying tickets on his cell phone, “it would be hard to save money, why pay more? I have a high degree of flexibility, and i don't want any good votes. There are not many people standing in line, there are plenty of votes, and they'll buy it.”。
From 20 to 21 december, journalists did not see the presence of “yellows” in the train station, and the electronic screen showed sufficient voting resources. The majority of the people who usually come to train stations to buy tickets are the middle-aged elderly, who generally indicate that they are less able to use the network. (reporter zhao li/ intern dong jin mon)
