Originally Posted by
coolguy100
I ran into the same situation too....half an hour after purchase, checked the balance on
https://www.walmartgift.com
and got "invalid gift card information.........". I tried private window of Firefox and it shows $500 balance. so need to either call or use private mode of web browser to find out it the card has been activated or not.
I've made two separate purchases since my local WM restocked the GDVGCs; first one took an hour to activate, second card (7/2/2018) took about 15 minutes. Still taking longer than the "old" batch, but not worrisome given the lack of reported fraud on the GDs vs the USBs from Ralphs in SoCal.