12306 reminds passengers not to fall prey to ticket purchase “acceleration packages” or speed reducers

When traveling during holidays, many passengers will choose third-party ticket purchasing platforms to purchase train tickets. Recently, some passengers reported to Railway 12306 that on the short video platform, they saw a short video titled "One way to buy 12306's discounted high-speed rail tickets and high-speed rail business seats" posted by a blogger. It used "special price", "cheap", "hidden benefits" and "free redemption" as selling points, claiming to have the "hidden method" of official ticket purchase, attracting them to search for the keywords specified by the blogger on the third-party platform to buy train tickets. So, is there really a so-called secret method to grab tickets on third-party platforms, as the blogger said?

The reporter searched for "train tickets" through an online search engine and clicked on the ticket purchase page in the search results. He found that the layout and color of many pages were almost exactly the same as those on the 12306 official website. The small print on the page read "You need to log in to the 12306 account." The reporter then logged in to multiple ticket grabbing windows and found that although the third-party platform had different paths, it would eventually turn back to Railway 12306.

Some platform pages prominently promote "Remaining tickets can be monitored in real time, and tickets will be sold immediately". They also list a variety of paid acceleration package products such as "Light Speed ​​Ticket Grabbing", "Extreme Speed ​​Ticket Grabbing", "Dedicated Personnel Help Grabbing", "Multiple People Help Grabbing Tickets", etc., with different prices ranging from 20 yuan to 55 yuan. Railway 12306 reminds that the above are the so-called ticket grabbing routines of third-party platforms. Passengers should keep their eyes open when purchasing tickets and avoid pitfalls rationally.

Zhang Zhi, associate researcher at the Digital Intelligence Passenger Transport Research Office of the Institute of Electronics of the Academy of Railway Sciences: The "real-time monitoring of remaining tickets" claimed by the third-party platform actually uses the information crawled from the 12306 platform to display it again. There is no so-called technical advantage to achieve "instant sales". Regardless of whether you purchase the "acceleration package" or not, you need to queue up to purchase tickets through the railway 12306 system. If the ticket grabbing behavior of the third-party platform is recognized as abnormal access by the 12306 system, it will be added to the slow queue or the ticket will be refused. Not only will it not be "accelerated", but it will be even slower.

(CCTV reporter Zheng Liankai)