Are ticket-grabbing mini-apps really useful? What ticket-grabbing mini-apps are there on WeChat?

It’s the Spring Festival travel season again, and the world’s largest annual population migration is about to begin. As the saying goes, tickets must be grabbed before the troops move. The group chat in the circle of friends continued to use the ticket-grabbing app, and the probability of being blocked or quitting the group increased greatly. The tickets for the Spring Festival travel rush are Schrodinger's tickets, the acceleration packages for grabbing tickets are the hope of returning home, and the help from friends and VIP are the flame of speed. So, did you grab the ticket to go home this year?

Are ticket-grabbing mini-programs really useful? What ticket-grabbing mini-programs are there on WeChat?

Returning home to have a good New Year is the hope of many people, and this also makes it particularly difficult to get a ticket. From "scalpers" to friends helping out, everyone is trying their best to get a ticket.
So, is the help from friends useful? Can the acceleration package given to you by your friends really help you get tickets? Before looking at this question, we can first take a look at what 12306 ticket purchase is all about.
When a user logs in to 12306 to purchase a ticket, a large number of requests are sent to the 12306 server. Third-party ticketing and ticket grabbing applications send requests on a large number of servers on behalf of the user. The core principle is to simulate the ticket purchasing process of logging into the 12306 website by sending an http request, using the machine to simulate the user's ticket purchasing behavior, and finally successfully purchase the ticket.
Therefore, the accelerated ticket grabbing service launched by third-party ticketing agencies is indeed effective and can help users grab tickets. However, with demand skyrocketing during the Spring Festival travel rush, it is still unknown how effective the ticket-grabbing mini-programs and apps can be.
For testing purposes, I placed two orders on the "Ticket Master" app, both with the same restrictions.
The passengers have the same preferred train number, the same preferred date, and the same alternative date. Then share one of the orders with friends and family, and ask them to speed up. The other order was left alone after payment was made, as a comparison.
As a result, the one who added the maximum speed to the powerful order of relatives and friends successfully grabbed the tickets, but the other one who only paid the money failed to grab the tickets after three days of trying and finally had to give up.
Judging from the test results of this platform, help from friends is indeed useful. Although the platform invites friends to speed up the process and does consider attracting more new users through social fission, it will still work hard for you. The priority for ticket grabbing, which attracts more potential users, should be before the "Buddhist" users who are waiting silently.
The staff of "Ticket Master" said that the effect of grabbing tickets through the mini program and grabbing tickets through software is the same. They use the concept of multi-platform VIP channels to stimulate users to share mini-programs, allowing more users to complete their support in the form of games.
However, the role of friends' help is limited. I ordered another high-speed ticket. Compared with the ticket I got before, although the high-speed ticket is more expensive, the travel time can be shortened by three hours, allowing everyone to get home earlier.
But this time, the help from friends failed. Even though relatives and friends helped to reach full speed again, I still couldn’t get the highway ticket. In the end, it was still the recharged acceleration package that helped me get the highway ticket.
You may not be able to grab a ticket using an acceleration package, but it is almost impossible to grab a ticket without it. According to the Beijing Youth Daily, during the 2018 Spring Festival travel season, at least 58 platforms launched ticket grabbing software and paid ticket grabbing services. This kind of ticket grabbing service usually exists in the form of acceleration packages and levels. A speed-up pack costs 2 yuan, and each person is limited to purchasing 50 speed-up packs. One level costs 10 yuan, and the highest level for each person is the VIP extreme speed level.
Anything that can be solved with money is not a problem. Many people who don’t want to disturb their friends by sending mini-programs or ticket-grabbing links choose this method. But more people choose this method because they want to spend money to buy peace of mind. After all, you really can't grab a ticket just by relying on your hand speed. If you can buy a ticket for 50 or 100 yuan, then there is no need to hesitate.
Shan Xinghua, deputy chief engineer of the Institute of Electronics of the China Academy of Railway Sciences and director of the 12306 Technical Department, had previously made it clear that it was difficult to get tickets. "Nearly 700 tickets were sold in one second during peak hours, which means that all the tickets for a popular train were sold out in one second. If you were a little slower, you wouldn't be able to buy a ticket."
700 tickets per second means 42,000 tickets per minute. When scrambling for tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush, what counts is hand speed and internet speed. The advantages of third-party ticketing services in ticket grabbing are fully utilized here. They will use corporate bandwidth and automatic graphic verification codes to automatically submit orders to help users buy tickets. Users do not need to refresh the ticket purchasing system all the time. The system will keep an eye on it for you and help you buy tickets when they are available.
But it’s not 100% certain that you can get a ticket. I spent 50 yuan on Zhixing and Ctrip respectively to upgrade myself to the highest level of ticket grabbing. The probability of grabbing tickets shown on the two platforms were 48% and 54.7% respectively. There is still a high probability that I will not be able to grab a ticket.

Although the platform guarantees a full refund if you fail to grab tickets, the ticket grabbing process on the platform will last until the last day. This also means that by the time you are sure that you cannot get a ticket, it will be too late.
Well-known Internet information blogger @后厂村村花 said on his Weibo that this kind of cloud ticket grabbing where you pay for speed is technically easy to achieve and you can grab tickets at ordinary times, but he is still negative about whether you can grab tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush. He also said that the disadvantages of this type of cloud ticket grabbing are that it requires value-added services, changes in the 12306 code will cause the ticket grabbing system to shut down, and poor stability.
But the sad thing is that if you use three different platforms to grab tickets at the same time, when it comes to the refund stage, the tickets can be refunded, but the 50 yuan acceleration package will definitely not be refunded. After all, Cloud Ticket Grabbing really does the work, and refunding the ticket is your personal choice.

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