Three questions about banning the sale of train tickets

The Electricity merchant website carries on the train ticket network sale business, generally all is carries on in the name of purchasing, mainly is in order to evade the policy risk. Because the purchase behavior occurs between the consumer and the website both sides, is one kind of ordinary principal-agent relations, does not have any legal obstacle, even if collects the service charge also does not violate the law. So the public announcement of the Ministry of Railways in early April only indicated that 12306 was the only Web site authorized to sell train tickets, and did not directly determine the purchasing behavior of the electric Dealer's website.

However, the electricity merchant website to purchase the nominal distribution train ticket, and 12306 form the competition relations. Prior to Tieyu nets, Ctrip, such as the provision of train ticket sales business has not been shouted stop, but Jingdong Mall in http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/21302.html "> Electric business field has a strong influence and efficient distribution system, This poses a great threat to the Ministry of Railways and the 12306 sense, so in Jingdong Mall high-profile into the train ticket purchasing business soon, the railway department to the offline consignment point issued "not cooperative order", from the votes on the card on the website throat, in this way indirectly blocked the electric business site, including some previously has not been stopped by the site is implicating.

The railway ministry's main reason is for the convenience of regulation, and an authorized website is easy to protect consumers ' rights and interests in technology and security, and it is also easy to crack down on votes. The original intention is worth affirming, but the need to think about is:

1, the ticket has been completely market-oriented, why can not train tickets market? Why can't we let go of private websites with more technical and operational advantages? Personally, the controversy over interests is greater than regulatory considerations. Open to private capital is the general trend, but also the national strategic direction.

2, train ticket sales authorized a website operation is not conducive to improving technology, perfect service, more difficult to change the inherent negative image of the railway system, 12306 operating practice also proved this point.

3. Authorize a business to completely prevent the reverse vote, guarantee security? This kind of regulatory thinking is too across, in fact also easy to bring monopoly and rent-seeking space.