Referred App keeps showing Invalid Link

Found out I had this problem yesterday. When using a link that has hit its limit of 3 people, it says "referral limit reached". When I use a link on a game that I already own it says "Can't accept referral". But when I use a valid link that hasn't hit its limit it says the game has been recommended to me and says NOTHING about referrals. I've contacted meta yesterday and they said that it would be escalated and I would be contacted by higher tech support or something. Still no email from them. If this whole selected group of people chosen BS is true, its absolutely ridiculous. Can someone please tell me if you were part of this "selected group" before and if it has changed and you can use the referral system now. Thanks.

I’m have the same problem but with app referrals. I’ve sent the app referral link they accept it and all it says is referrals accepted but I don’t get the $5. 

Please help

same problem here, I get an invalid link message each time I try ANY referral link, even if it was just created

Good evening, unfortunately I can't use the refferal links to take advantage of the 25% discount.

When I click on the link the main page of the quest app opens automatically and nothing appears.

If I do it from the browser, first it opens a page where it asks me to accept a message from the person who sent me the link, then it asks me to log in and then it tells me invalid link

And that is why i am going to start sideloading on games

I have the same problem, i can't accept any 25% app referrals. 
Even if the statement that promotions aren't available to everyone is correct, i think Meta is hurting its own reputation with those arbitrary experiments / algorithms on their customers.
Customers will start to ask themselves what did i wrong, why is an algorithm excluding me from promotions, how long will this last?
In the end it will result in frustration about unpredictability and the lack of transparency that impacts the overall motivation of using the platform.
I bought my Quest 3, three weeks ago and so far, i have very mixed feelings. There is the hardware and a lot of games, i am very happy about and there is the system software, shop infrastructure, customer support and a lack of transparency and communication on the other side that makes it very hard to recommend. If it works, it is fine but if you run into any problems you are lost and on your own. 
While Apples online community is pretty useless with its generic answers too, the actual support is miles ahead, and will even call you back just to ask if the problem was solved.
Meta is spending tons of money into VR what i appreciate, but to succeed on a large scale they have to realize that just putting a platform into the world works for IG and FB, but not for a hardware product people spending much more money on a regularly basis. 

Same problem here, can't use discounts by referral codes anymore. I would not have a problem with it if the rules were communicated clearly and made transparent for everyone. But without - the whole referral code system stinks with Meta ruining their reputation. So now I also got a Pico and SteamVR as kind of backup (where some of my money might flow to instead.)

Also having this issue.

Not allowed to make a new thread and mine are all are they recommended the game no discount. Spoke with a number of game developers they had a meeting with meta we are in one of two groups a and b.