I'm sure people have bought items using my STL over the past year and a half but i have never received any credit.

Has anyone actually seen a credit on their account?

If you bought that item using someone else's love, then you don't get the credit. I, for one, have never bought anything without love in the first place...

You have to be the first in the chain in order to get the credit, and you only get the credit once, even if a thousand people buy it using your love.

I did receive stl credit last year. Since then all my purchase was made with love originated from others.

I think the credit is good for 30 days once it is posted to your account. You have to redeem it explicitly into your promotional GC balance.

I have received STL credit. I haven't received lots of STL credit, I think I have received credit for maybe 10 out of 100 STL titles that I have sent out. It has been 2 or 3 months I think since the last time that I have received STL credit.

And eau is right. The credit is available for 30 days but it can actually be available for 60 days because you 30 days to redeem the credit and then once it is redeemed you have 30 additional days to use the credit before it disappears.

Edit: I have wondered though if someone buys a title with the STL discount that you have sent and then the discount gets dropped by Amazon for whatever reason during the shipping process, does the person who sent the discount still get the credit? Obviously, the person should but does the glitch in the system causing the STL to drop off of shipped items also cause a glitch which would not give credit to the person who sent the discount? The only way to know for sure I guess would be to contact the person who sent you the STL to be sure that they received the credit.

A couple of times I initiated a purchase and someone on my list bought the item, but Amazon still didn't give me credit.

I occasionally get credit, but not often.

I have never gotten any credit for people I sent stl to and I know they made purchases within the time frame. Many of them emailed me to thank me for sharing.

It wasn't worth it to fight Amazon for the credit. I'm just happy to help save others some dough and hopefully those who sent me slt got their credit.