About a year ago, I was invited by my brother-in-law to open a gmail account. i finally got around to doing it just before last Thanksgiving. At the time, I was told I could invite up to one hundred people to open gmail accounts. I invited exactly one friend to open an account in January, leaving me with what I thought was 99 more invitations to distribute.
Last week, another friend asked me if I could let him into the club. Happy to oblige, I went to my gmail page, and looked for the “invite a friend” option. But I can’t find it now, aaarrrghhh. I’d like to believe that this is merely a case of me forgetting where the option is, the way I sometimes forget how to move the taskbar in my browser, but I’m worried that the folks at Google noticed that I wasn’t using them, and took them back.
Does this hapen? Did I fritter away my opportunity to invite people to gmail/ Or did I just lose track of a function that’s been there all along, safe and sound?
It should be the last item in the left-side column of your inbox.
Interestingly, everytime I invited someone to Gmail the number of invitations would go back to 100 the next time I opened the page. Now I notice I’ve only got 99 left.
What, right below Contacts, Labels; or right below Trash? 'Cause it’s not showing on my screen.
N.B. I note that it won’t let me access my settings screen from work, evidently because I don’t have the latest supported browser. Could this be a factor in why I’m not finding these invitations?
And if you really don’t have any left, I’m sure you could find plenty of people with invites to spare. I’ve got a couple and can invite your friend if you give me his email.
I think that may be the reason. It used to be that Gmail refused to run at all on unsupported browsers. Now, I think you get a simplified HTML-only version of the interface.
Thank you for that. The feature does not show on my screen at work. I’ll check from home this evening.
Reply, thanks for the offer. Turns out the first guy I invited wasn’t interested, so I went to my “sent” file, found the original invitation, clicked on the link, and created a new account, which I then turned over to my pal. It also doesn’t show any invitations available. Does anyone know if recently-formed accounts are supposed to be getting invites to pass out?
