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You can buy the game and still get the 30 free days on the same account.
Then, BEFORE YOU BUY ANY GAME TIME OR SUBSCRIPTION TIME, you can still be used for recruit-a-friend. Seriously, if you're gonna have your account used for recruit a friend, get that over with as soon as you can because once you buy game time (not the game - game time), you can't be "recruited" anymore.
My husband and I were both on trial. When they were up, we each bought the game. He "recruited" me. We both still had the 30 free days. Then we bought extra game time. All of this was with the same accounts we used for trial.
When you buy the game (which you'll have to in order to turn your free trial account into a regular account), that comes with 30 days of game time included. The only thing you can miss there is any remaining free trial time. For instance, if you are only 7 days into your 14 day free trial when you buy the game, you'd be forfeiting the other 7 free trial days. You'd just have the 30 days you got with the purchase.
For the Recruit a Friend program, you can enter the code for that any time after buying the game but before buying any additional subscription time. You then get the reward once you do pay for additional subscription time. (If buying that additional subscription time with a credit card or crysta, payment is only taken once it's due. Since you earn the reward once payment is made, that means you don't get the reward until a subscription time payment is due, after the 30 days that were included with the game purchase are over. You can circumvent that wait by paying with a game-time card instead, since that form of payment can be made whenever you want, regardless of whether it's due yet or not.)
Oh, and another common confusion is that some people seem to confuse the free trial program with the recruit a friend program, thinking the RAF program gives additional free game time. It doesn't. The Recruit a Friend program just gives you a cool looking circlet your character can wear that has an XP buff property. You get the extra 20% experience whenever wearing that circlet while on a class that's level 25 or below. (Keep in mind that this game has a lot of multi-classing opportunities, so you may go back to leveling new classes long after your first class has passed that lvl 25 mark. That can keep the "< lvl 25" requirement from making the circlet obsolete for quite a while.)