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MintyFishy
New Participant
May 19, 2024
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Referred App keeps showing Invalid Link

I'm currently having a problem on any app referral links. It keeps showing me an Invalid Link page regardless of who send me a referral link. I've already tried unlinking my Meta account out of my Facebook account and have tried using private/incognito browser to accept the referral link. Unfortunately, they still gives me Invalid Link page. 


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    LaserDiskAnswer
    Honored Contributor
    June 11, 2024

    Hello everyone,

    I observed that fellow moderator ShiroTenko has responded to a few of you already. However, I wanted to create this post and designate it as a solution to ensure that everyone is aware of the information provided by the engineers. While I understand that this is not a solution, it is the best way to guarantee that all users can easily view the post.

    The engineers are evaluating changes to the app referrals program. As a result, some randomly selected groups of users may periodically not be able to access app referrals.

    These user groups change frequently, and if an offer is not currently available to you that is available to others, this means that offer is not being given to your group at this time. Please keep an eye out for similar options in your group in the future.

    Thank you again to everyone who has reported your experiences during these changes. Your feedback is always important to us.

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    tomorowe
    New Participant
    July 24, 2024

    They’ve been spouting out this rubbish for months now about ‘groups’, however when you private message they say they are working to resolve this issue. If it was randomly selected why are they trying to fix it?? I’ve had my quest since April and have never been able to use App referrals so not sure they understand what ‘changes frequently’ means!

    Moraie
    Participant
    July 24, 2024

    It seems like they've changed their TOS for the referral program, unless I just missed some parts before.  Maybe that means this torture is coming to an end?

     

    Midnight145415
    Up and Coming
    July 31, 2024

    Meta support.....do you have ANY clue at what you are doing?  ok so now referrals are (kind of) working - however with the recent changes, ie people have to be following each other - but it also says now it is only 15% discount and £1 (guessing $1-2) of promo credit eart....ok fair enough.....BUT - click the terms and conditions of your own app, and it still says 25% and £4 credit will be earned......can you at least try and follow you know....the LAW(!).  How hard can it be to have updated your T&Cs when making this change......also, there was zero communication of this change too, only stumbling across it on testing with my partners account

      fnordy
      Participant
      July 31, 2024

      So we were shadow banned on the old system.. maybe too may people clicked our links.

      I also noticed they forgot to update the terns and conditions.. 

      Is there still a limit of 3 referrals per app total? Who knows without updated terms and conditions..

      Moraie
      Participant
      July 31, 2024

      It wasn't because too many people clicked our links, because I have barely any referrals, and there were new people who were shadow banned from day 1.

       

      I'm still annoyed that we were banned from the 25% while others were able to use it, and we're "released" now that it's a lower percentage.  They should have at least sent us a 25% off coupon or something to let us buy a game of our choice at a discount.

      Rythmicone
      New Participant
      August 24, 2024

      Same issue. Friend trying to send me game referall links and they ALL come up invalid or no longer good.  The app is terrible and buggy, and slow.  All ways of trying to access link fails.  Wont be buying any more meta products.

       

        Midnight145415
        Up and Coming
        August 24, 2024

        The referral scheme is near enough ruined by Meta with a poor discount (the having to be friends is fine though), that its not worth bothering with.  For all but the newest titles may aswell just wait for a sale that generally offers the larger discount, and just will save bit of coinage myself as a result not buying as many on a whim

        OMOTO1439928
        OMOTO1439928
        Honored Contributor
        August 25, 2024

        Hey folks, Midnight Moraie fnordy 
        I'm glad to hear you're able to participate fully in the referral program again but I understand there's a lot of frustration surrounding recent changes.

        I'm happy to leave this thread open for further reports of issues regarding links but I'd like us to remain on the initial topic only, please! You're more than welcome to continue discussion on a new thread or privately.

        Thank you!

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        WetBlister
        Participant
        September 10, 2024

        It's discrimination.  Certainly a lawyer would wanna suck some bucks from Meta via a class-action lawsuit.  

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