The spring season is coming, and the spring train ticket has reached its peak. Even though this spring has seen a marked increase in traffic and a greater diversity of ticketing methods than in previous years, many of those who have come home have opted for the use of ticketing software。
According to incomplete statistics, there are nearly 60 software platforms operating on the market, which, although they vary in their use, are essentially the same: “whoever increases the price is more likely to win the ticket”. Are these robbery software really working
There's a lot of invisibility in the software
Recently, many tweets have been received from friends on various “accelerated” pick-up links from time to time, and during the spring run, some hot lines have been hard to get, and many people have pinned their hopes of getting tickets home on a variety of robbery software。
So, can you really get the tickets? Ms. Zhang (alias) from her hometown in harbin, heilong river, told reporters that the train ticket from beijing to harbin was very tight every time she took a break or spring break, and she had to choose four or five software packages to rob the ticket。
Ms. Zhang: "select the speed pack and give it to my family and friends, so that they can give me some speed packs, which are likely to take a higher rate, and take about 18 to 9 hours for slow cars, which cost about 300, so i can get this ticket at $150."
In fact, the robbery software is not new, and ms. Zhang's impression is that she's had it for 10 years, with five tickets, and that the number of success stories is not high, but the hidden consumption of the robbery software is increasing。
Ms. Zhang: “for example, if i pick you up with an accelerator, it'll take you out for insurance, for example, for $50, and then you'll pay for the software, but you didn't get it, but you got it for the other one, and it's $50, which doesn't pay you back, and it's the equivalent of $150 i spent to get the ticket.”
Ms. Guo, from beijing, also had a deep sense of that experience. Ms. Guo said that, when using the ticket-taking software, there were many fee-paying services that had been deliberately selected, and the money had been inadvertently spent。
Ms. Kwok: “when you choose a low-speed robbery, it'll add a speed pack of $50, and it'll be hard to notice the additional cost, and when you call for confirmation, it's actually a default increase of $50, and you can't see any extra money on this order.”
However, consumers have also indicated that it is easier to buy tickets than to buy tickets from the 12306 website。
Consumers: “if i buy it with software now, it will take longer, but it will eventually get me tickets, which will be difficult to buy if you don't have the money, or if you buy the train tickets for the hot line only at a nominal price.”
It is understood that there are currently four main ways to rob the software on the market. The first is for members who have spent money on the platform, who have received three to five so-called maximum ticket-taking chances, followed by regular ticket-taking, with low chances of success; the second is fortuitous robbery, which is actually for dozens of dollars, which are returned to consumers if it is not possible; and the third is for the privilege of giving priority to the ticket, which is for the more money, which is the more expensive the software shows, the more likely it is to get tickets, the faster it is, the faster it is, the faster it is, the faster it is, the faster it is, the faster it is, the faster it is, the faster it is the faster it is, the faster it is possible to get tickets. The fourth is for the more likely to get tickets, and the fourth is for the more people to hit through the relay link, the more the more it is possible to get tickets, which, although it is not extra。
Counsel: the robbery software is no different from the old cow
So, how exactly do these hacking software help consumers get tickets? In an interview with the media, the under-secretary-general of the intermedia industry alliance of the ministry of industry and communications stated that the robbery principle of the ticket-taking software was, in fact, the constant updating of the 12306 server through a computer program, faster than the user's manual update。
Yang zhen: “the ticket-robbing software is a rapid machine to help people complete an ongoing search and refreshing of pages, allowing people who use it to access information on this ticket more quickly than people who search manually. The 12306 website is a set of servers to respond to user requests, and when you use the robbery software it automatically selects a more free server.”
The director of the professional committee on consumer rights and law of the beijing bar association said that in a wide variety of ticket-taking software, some of them did not actually have the capacity to rob, but merely overbroaded their interests, suspected of false propaganda or even fraud。
“if there is a third-party platform for the purchase of tickets, they may be subject to a liability of three per cent for deliberate propaganda or false propaganda, even at the time of sale
According to yun, the act of a raise-and-take is per se a violation of consumer rights, both for the person who obtained the tickets and for others who purchased them by normal means。
Clouds: from the group that buys tickets (with software), it means that consumers spend a certain amount more than normal fares to buy them, effectively violating consumers' right to fair trade. The right of these people to buy tickets fairly is, in fact, restricted for the rest of the motorcade.”
In the case of mandatory purchases such as “insurance”, which is widespread in the case of ticket-taking software, it is believed that, by its very nature, there is no difference between the ticket-taking software and the previous reverse “cow”。
“the early years of selling the unnamed tickets of the `cows' are now used as a technical means to raise the price for the tickets, and the core is the additional costs of the base fare, which were actually taken by individuals and now by third-party institutions.”
In response to the issue of ticket-taking software, the relevant staff of the china railway client service centre stated that no authorization had been given to any of these software to conduct the robbery and that many channels for the software had been blocked. In addition, since 2019, platform 12306 has introduced an official “alternate ticket-taking” function to help consumers rob on platform 12306。
