I have a different referral question but rather than start a thread with almost the same title I'll just post it here.

I referred 2 friends for the gold amex card. Those were my first referrals and I got my bonus points. They are supposed to get 20k points instead of 15k. One only got 15 and was told that's it because she missed a cut-off date (???) and the other got 15 and was told the other 5k would come after 3 months. Has anyone ran into this kind of runaround before? I referred from my platinum card so I thought I'd call the platinum number and see if I could get anywhere to push their points through but I haven't called yet.