Waiting for the ticket is that the ticket you want to buy has been sold out, and you can submit the waiting order in advance. If someone changes or refunds the ticket later, the system will automatically allocate the ticket according to the ranking.

Alternate ticket means that when the ticket has been sold out, someone can buy the ticket according to the alternate order after returning the ticket, and grabbing the ticket means that there are still some tickets left.

The main difference between waiting for a train ticket and grabbing a ticket is that waiting for a ticket is usually more successful and faster than grabbing a ticket, and grabbing a ticket is issued at the official designated time. People need to grab a ticket within the time period, and there will be no ticket after missing the time period. This is the biggest difference between the two.

The main reason for grabbing train tickets is that the Chinese railway department has launched an initiative to order train tickets online in order to reduce scalper bills and reduce the economic burden of passengers, and also for the convenience of ticket buyers. At present, online booking can be 60 days in advance.

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Train ticket standby is very similar to ticket grabbing, which is a way to snap up refunds and surplus tickets when the tickets are sold out, but the speed and success rate of standby ticket purchasing should precede ticket grabbing, which is also the biggest difference between the two different ways.

Usually, patching ticket purchase refers to a ticket purchase service and method on 12306 platform. When the tickets are sold out, passengers only need to register the ticket purchase information on the 12306 platform to pay for the advance ticket, and then they can get the refund and the remaining tickets first. This is the advantage of the standby ticket, which is always ahead of the ticket grab.