iTunes gift card – Be Careful

Last week I bought an iTunes gift card at a newly opened CVS near our home. I bought it for my eldest grandson for his 5th grade graduation. We were in Atlanta over the weekend and when he went to redeem the card it said it had not been activated. Of course, I can’t find the receipt and CVS will not do anything about it so I went to the iTunes web site, entered all the information required and received an automatic response that I would be hearing from them within 24 hours. That was Tuesday. As of this morning I haven’t heard a word and I have to wonder what is up! The card was intact (B had to reveal the access code), CVS says that they could not have rung the card up if it had not activated during the process, so what gives. I had gone to our local Lowes grocery store first and inquired about the iTunes Gift Card and was told that they had all been pulled from their inventory. I should have suspected something then and there.  UPDATE: I tried to redeem the card this Sat and lo and behold it worked.  I still have not heard back from iTunes so I am still wondering what happened.  Maybe the activation process was delayed in the upload from CVS – who knows?