Stanford is telling us that the tickets will show up in my Stanford ticket account, which I will need to link to a Stanford ticketing app on my phone. Then, Stanford is telling me to store the tickets in an Apple or Google Pay Wallet.
I've used electronic tickets on my phone for movies, theater, etc. But nobody else required me to use Apple Wallet, nor did they require me to download a separate app, nor did they require me to have a linked user account.
Stanford is making its football tickets much harder to use than, for example, AMC Cinema simply texting me a QR code.
I will figure it out, I guess. But what about our less tech-literate fans? This is going to be a problem for some of them.
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, 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?
I've used electronic tickets on my phone for movies, theater, etc. But nobody else required me to use Apple Wallet, nor did they require me to download a separate app, nor did they require me to have a linked user account.
Stanford is making its football tickets much harder to use than, for example, AMC Cinema simply texting me a QR code.
I will figure it out, I guess. But what about our less tech-literate fans? This is going to be a problem for some of them.
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, 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?