[qwerty49]

Also, a problem arises when I want to give away my extra tickets, which I frequently do. As I understand it, I can give away tickets by text or email, but the recipient needs to have a Stanford ticket account, and also needs to have the Stanford ticket app on his or her phone. 

That's going to make it a lot harder to give away tickets at the last minute, I don't buy the additional security benefit as I doubt there is a big counterfeit ticket problem for Stanford football, and it's going to make it a lot harder to give tickets to people who aren't already Stanford fans. Are people who aren't yet Stanford fans going to be willing to open a Stanford ticket account and download an app, just so they can attend a game that they might not feel that strongly about?

this is a stupid policy.  The only reason I can think of to require this is to expand their customer list.  In addition to the giving tix to friends they are also basically requiring everyone in a ticket order to have an account and the app given people on the same ticket order don't always enter the stadium at the same time, and even if they do enter at the same time some may come out at halftime while others remain in the stadium.  This also creates the overhead for the ticket buyer of having to transfer the tix everyone in their order, glad I only have two tix in mine.

ADD:  response from the ticket office

This is correct information, and consistent with other platforms like TicketMaster and StubHub who utilizing mobile ticketing transfers. Normally, if there are barcodes it is easy to screenshot and share the images. Since we use a “digital signature” similar to Apple Pay, this makes that process much more secure, even if the added step of account creation is required. Our users are able to opt-out of unwanted communication as well if that is a concern.

ADD: second response from the ticket office

Neither you nor your partner will be required to download and use the Stanford Athletics mobile app to attend games. It is recommended, but not required. Mobile tickets can be accessed via email or their online account using a web browser. Creating an account to accept a ticket transfer is as simple as filling out the form below [not below here]. After “Create Account” is selected, the recipient can open the ticket on their phone and scan-in, or save it to their Apple or G Pay Wallet

What a cluster. I live in SoCal with a large extended family and it’s impossible for me to come up to Palo Alto Thanksgiving weekend. So I always sell my post-Thanksgiving tix on StubHub. So whoever I sell to has to create an account and download the app? This just makes everything really more difficult than it needs to be. I’ll give it a shot but after 48 years as a STH I think I’m gonna bail after this one.

[qwerty49]

Also, a problem arises when I want to give away my extra tickets, which I frequently do. As I understand it, I can give away tickets by text or email, but the recipient needs to have a Stanford ticket account, and also needs to have the Stanford ticket app on his or her phone. 

That's going to make it a lot harder to give away tickets at the last minute, I don't buy the additional security benefit as I doubt there is a big counterfeit ticket problem for Stanford football, and it's going to make it a lot harder to give tickets to people who aren't already Stanford fans. Are people who aren't yet Stanford fans going to be willing to open a Stanford ticket account and download an app, just so they can attend a game that they might not feel that strongly about?

this is a stupid policy.  The only reason I can think of to require this is to expand their customer list.  In addition to the giving tix to friends they are also basically requiring everyone in a ticket order to have an account and the app given people on the same ticket order don't always enter the stadium at the same time, and even if they do enter at the same time some may come out at halftime while others remain in the stadium.  This also creates the overhead for the ticket buyer of having to transfer the tix everyone in their order, glad I only have two tix in mine.

ADD:  response from the ticket office

This is correct information, and consistent with other platforms like TicketMaster and StubHub who utilizing mobile ticketing transfers. Normally, if there are barcodes it is easy to screenshot and share the images. Since we use a “digital signature” similar to Apple Pay, this makes that process much more secure, even if the added step of account creation is required. Our users are able to opt-out of unwanted communication as well if that is a concern.

ADD: second response from the ticket office

Neither you nor your partner will be required to download and use the Stanford Athletics mobile app to attend games. It is recommended, but not required. Mobile tickets can be accessed via email or their online account using a web browser. Creating an account to accept a ticket transfer is as simple as filling out the form below [not below here]. After “Create Account” is selected, the recipient can open the ticket on their phone and scan-in, or save it to their Apple or G Pay Wallet

What a cluster. I live in SoCal with a large extended family and it’s impossible for me to come up to Palo Alto Thanksgiving weekend. So I always sell my post-Thanksgiving tix on StubHub. So whoever I sell to has to create an account and download the app? This just makes everything really more difficult than it needs to be. I’ll give it a shot but after 48 years as a STH I think I’m gonna bail after this one.