Netspend offers to allow customers to refer a friend to get a Netspend card and after their friend makes {$40.00} in deposits onto the prepaid card, both people are supposed to get {$20.00} each deposited onto their cards. I e-mailed the link to my domestic partner who does not have a bank account due to losing employment and having ruined credit in the wake. He clicked the link to their site and completed the application XXXX times before giving up because it had been weeks since he applied and the screen told him that his card would be here in 2-4 weeks. 2-4 months later, he decided to try to just go in through my account online and order himself a card. They linked his card to my account and we called Netspend customer service for assistance to get him the card I had sent him a referral for. The new card had to be cancelled and he was sent a different card that is his own account independent of mine. We called them this morning to inquire about our {$20.00} deposits that have not shown up ( that we could really use to help us pay the rent this month ) and they said that he did not qualify for the program because I could not have referred him because he got a card the same day I did ( referring to the XXXX linked to my account that I did not add anyone to at all! ). We spoke with a rep and a supervisor and they maintain that XXXX has been a customer longer than me and that he is not eligible to be a referral of mine. It is just frustrating that this is where my paychecks are going to now and these people are idiots, saying XXXX purchased his card from XXXX XXXX. He did not! It is the XXXX and only card he ever received from his inquiries from the referral program that XXXX of their idiotic employees sent to him. He never received any other cards on any other accounts and I never even authorized him as a user on my account. I just happened to be logged into it XXXX time when he was trying again to reapply for the card that never came. We were on the phone with them for over an hour this morning just trying to get the referral money promised by their ads ( because we are poor and need it that desperately ). XXXX has gone through so much hassle with all of this nonsense and explained it to the rude woman on the phone today. We did everything we were supposed to for the program, but never got the money promised. The lady said it could have been their software/internet issue, but refused to manually credit the reward fund to either of our accounts. After all of this trouble, I sure wo n't be referring anyone else there, that is for sure. 
