Recently, such a passage has been circulated on a fellow forum:
The second spring festival of Didi Shunfeng is coming soon. I miss it …
With the close of the year, the annual spring return to the hometown is about to come. In the forums and communities of various townships, the demand information for “home rides” by ride-sharing and carpooling is increasing rapidly. Journey away.
Although the trial expansion of Didi Shunfeng has recently been launched in Beijing, Wuhan, Foshan, Nanchang, and Changsha, five cities such as Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou have a strong demand for returning rides. It seems hopeless years ago.
A reader told me to understand the notes. These days I have been trying to enter a return address in Didi’s cross-city carpooling, but the system displays “No such line”. As a result, many people have begun to push for tickets, bus tickets, or pin their hopes on other carpooling channels in an effort to plan their way home.
However, a few readers reported that they understand the notes. Recently, there have been many return carpools and demand release information on second-hand e-commerce or city service applications such as Xianyu and 58. Some users find the “organization” of carpooling on the platform, and they have already decided in advance the line for returning home for the New Year.
In addition to airplanes and trains, the demand for short- and medium-haul rides and carpools is still strong during the Spring Festival. Some mainstream travel application platforms can also provide such services. platform?
To figure out the answer to your question, you have to figure out who posted the carpool information.
The carpooling request is over in seconds
On Idle Fish, I tried to search for the term “New Year’s carpool” when I understood the notes. A lot of relevant information appeared. According to a Shanghai-WestAn’s carpool information for returning home, understand the notes and contacted the publisher “Captain”.
“I’m not a full-time driver. I just drive home in the New Year. I want to find a few fellows to share the fare together.” The captain said that he was an ordinary office worker in Jing’an District, Shanghai. He planned to drive back in mid-January. Xi’an. Because the distance from Shanghai to Xi’an is nearly 1,400 kilometers, the toll is estimated to be around 650 yuan, plus the gas fee is about 1,200 yuan. Therefore, he hopes to find fellow fellows online to reduce the burden of travel expenses.
“I have published carpooling information before the festival every year since 2016, and I can get a few fellows every time.” The captain recalled that because Didi had the function of a cross-city ride, it was more convenient and simple to use. . Just post the demand before returning to your hometown, and you will be able to get it soon.
But from last year, Didi Shunfeng went offline, so he had to join fellow WeChat groups and forums to post carpool information. . “
The captain told me understand the notes, he released a total of four “empty seats” with his colleagues, and quickly found four fellows. But before traveling, he was temporarily “flying a plane” by two of the fellows, which caused him to lose two “empty seats”.
“This is the same with the fellow villagers. Everyone has it. There are even micro-commercials and scammers. It is very unreliable.” This year, on the advice of a company colleague, he tried to publish a carpool on the platform such as Xianyu and 58. Message, “My colleagues who are planning to drive back to Wenzhou, Quanzhou, and Chaozhou have done the same.”
Is there a problem with posting carpool information of “people looking for a car” on a non-professional travel platform? The captain replied, “I only released it yesterday, and the effect is really good. Now there is only one empty seat left in the car, and it should be available soon.”
He revealed that a colleague found four fellow fellows within a few minutes on the day the carpool information was released. The effect was comparable to the Didi cross-city ride. In addition, if you are a fellow fellow found on the leisure fish, you can also show the other party a little “sincerity” in advance: take a link to buy a carpool, and confirm the order when you arrive.
“I’m afraid I’ll meet an unreliable one, so I must take an order. In this case, there is a cost to remorse. As a car owner, I will be a bit more at ease.” The captain was still obviously angry when he mentioned that the carpool was cancelled last year. Carpooling must take an order first, which is why you choose to “trade” on the second-hand e-commerce platform.
E-commerce and information aggregation platforms have considerable traffic, which can provide carpool owners with an opportunity to advertise.The family kept its promise. However, such platforms also have some problems, such as the user group is less accurate than the travel platform.
Now there are a lot of travel applications on the market that have a ride-hailing business, such as click, hello, and even Gaode has launched a cross-city ride-hailing platform service.
So why do n’t these car owners and users with carpooling needs find “organizations” on “more professional” platforms? Is there something inexplicable in it?
There is a “threshold” for travel platforms
“The platform is to make money, even if it is a free travel platform, I think there will be problems.”
Zhao Xu, who works at an electrical appliance manufacturing company in Shenzhen, recently contacted a car owner who was going to drive back from Shenzhen to Shantou’s home in mid-month. He told me to take notes, and he would ride home almost every major traditional holiday.
In his opinion, most mainstream travel applications are profit-oriented, and carpool prices are correspondingly higher. After all, users choose to travel by carpool to return to their hometowns, and the fees paid to car owners are drawn commissions. “A colleague who posted information on the platform of the ride-hailer said he was commissioned by 10%.”
Although the commission is only 10%, it is obviously not a decimal number for the fare of a few hundred yuan. As a result, some car owners and passengers began to contact themselves on e-commerce and information platforms in order to reduce costs. “I used to share a car back to Shantou on the travel app. The car sharing cost was about 240 yuan, but the owner who contacted on the free fish asked me 160 yuan, saving nearly 40%.
Zhao Xu explained that most car owners who send carpool information on non-mainstream travel platforms are not full-time drivers. Coupled with the absence of pricing standards for travel platforms, fares can be negotiated on their own. The pricing power lies with the owner and the bargaining power lies with the passenger. The final agreed price will be either cheaper or free from platform restrictions.system.
For this view, Xiao Yan, a car owner who is recruiting returning ride-hailing passengers, expressed his “serious” approval. Xiao Yan told that he understood the notes. Last weekend, he posted information about the ride-hailing car (Shenzhen to Nanchang) on two travel platforms, but almost no passengers ordered a carpool.
“Some navigation software shows no commission, I think it ’s not bad, but I ca n’t find any passengers after the information is released.” To this end, Xiao Yan tried to find a passenger on the above-mentioned navigation platform called commission free. The order for the downwind car, but it was found that the estimated fare for a ride back to Nanchang was almost 900 yuan.
“I drive for my own car and gas, but it’s only a few thousand. Find three people, and each passenger only needs to give me three hundred yuan.” Xiao Yan was a bit stupid about such an estimate, he said, Shenzhen The fare for the train to Nanchang is only 400 yuan. “If I am a passenger, I would definitely not dare to see such a carpool price.”
Although the estimated fare seems to make a small profit for downwind owners, it is difficult to find ride-sharing passengers because of the price. After careful consideration, Xiao Yan still chose to use the free fish, 58 city to release the information of the return ride, let passengers contact themselves, he said that there is already a passenger to communicate with him.
After hearing so many car owners and carpooling passengers, there seems to be something missing in many considerations and content. After careful consideration, almost no one mentioned the important issue of “safety”.
Some people in the industry pointed out that the current travel platforms have a certain understanding of the concept of the downwind car. Almost all the features of the downwind car are emphasized to “make money for car owners.” But the reality is: Whether it ’s carpooling during the Spring Festival or daily commute carpooling, most car owners do n’t want to make money from it, but just want to save the burden of travel expenses for individuals.
In order to allow car owners to save their money and passengers to save money and finalize the ride-sharing schedule as early as possible, many car owners have recently voluntarily chosen to publish information on downwind cars on used e-commerce and information aggregation platforms. But how do passengers who have been recruited through the above channels, and the car owners they contact, ensure safety during the trip? Who will keep it safe?
This should really be a question worthy of the consideration of various platform operators.
Real name, authorization becomes “guarantee”
“Even if you contact carpools in the same township, I’m sorry to ask for their ID card and driver’s license.”
Yu Qing, who plans to take a ride back from Guangzhou to Meizhou during the Spring Festival, has recently been checking the carpool information posted by the owner on Freefish. She told me to understand the notes. I can see a lot of carpool information on the platform, and I feel that there are a lot of riders who can choose. In addition to comparing prices, she will also carefully check each other’s information.
“After all, safety is the most important thing.” During the screening process, Yu Qing first excluded those who posted carpool information but did not have the authorization of Sesame Credit. Real-name authenticated accounts were excluded. I wo n’t consider it, and I ’m afraid I ’ll meet black car owners. ”
For an account with credit authorization and real-name authentication, Yu Qing still needs to further identify the consumption of the owner of the ride. She introduced that when choosing the owner’s account, she would read the consumption records of the account, such as what products have been bought and sold, how well received and given the consumer evaluation.
“If the evaluation record is good, and the content of the transaction is not a chartered car, then it should be a normal office car owner.” She has already screened out several satisfactory individual car owners and is preparing to contact each other for a chat Carpool prices and routes.
Like Yu Qing, who has passed the account credit and real-name authentication to “know someone”, and the owner of Dongguan, Mr. Zou. He told me to understand the notes. Recently, he posted information on carpooling from Dongguan to Xiapu before the Spring Festival on the leisure fish. Several passengers have already asked him for specific itineraries and prices in just a few days.
“I will first look at the account of the other party. Does it have (credit) authorization and real-name authentication?” If the other party is a “three-none” account, he usually does not reply. Here, he will also look at the transaction history of the other party to understand who the other party is.
He revealed that, based on his own experience, he often badly evaluates sellers and does not evaluate well. Generally, he is a person who cares about the car and is definitely not suitable for carpooling. In order to avoid disputes, he will also rule it out, “Unfortunately, my route is relatively unpopular, not many people are carpooling, and seats are not yet full.”
If you have n’t reached the end of the 30th year, Mr. Zou would like to go to 58 again.Try it on, “Take a risk, after all, most of the accounts on these two platforms have no real names, let alone any consumer credit records.”
There are owners who often “open spells” on the platform tell that they understand the notes. At present, there are basically no applications on the market that can guarantee the authenticity of user account information. In their opinion, no matter how to publish carpool information or find car owners through any application, it is necessary to carefully screen and select the most reliable peers.
“It is true that it is more economical to ride a car or ride a car, but it is not absolutely safe. If you want absolute safety, do not choose this form.” A Shenzhen car owner said.
[Concluding remarks]
The annual “migration” tide is coming, and ride-hailing and car-sharing will play a very important role in returning home. Saving money, worry, and security should be the main aspirations of all participants.
Today, a lot of carpool information appears on second-hand e-commerce and information aggregation platforms, rather than mainstream travel platforms. The reasons behind it are worth thinking about. Many car owners and passengers have chosen to publish and communicate on their own initiative, and unknowingly left the authentic travel platform on the side, leaving people helpless and speechless.