The nonsense that is e-gift card delivery.
Are all gift cards sent through email?
LPT: When ordering an e-gift card for someone, send it to your email first and then forward it to them.
Tryna buy some e giftcards on the walmart app but it wont work
How will my Walmart Gift Card be delivered?
Your Walmart Gift Card will be digitally delivered, via web link, after the completion of your order.
In the case of some orders, to fight against payment fraud, we may need to send a request to verify your payment details with the upload of an identification card. If you get this request, this is a one-time request, and will make placing future orders much faster.
Our typical processing time for a Walmart Gift Card is 1-3 minutes.
How do I use a Walmart gift card online?
What can I purchase with a Walmart Gift Card?
You can use your Walmart Gift Card to add balance to your Walmart account. Then you can use that money to buy from Walmart.com.
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I'm going to try to avoid a TL;DR situation here.
I sell things on etsy, and I get paid into paypal. Often times it is easier for me to buy a Wal*Mart e-gift card than to wait for the 3-5 day turnaround time for paypal to deposit money into my bank account.
I've done this on four other occasions, and the longest it ever took to arrive in my email was a little under 2 hours. Usually it's within a half hour.
I do understand that the Wal*Mart site says it can take "24-48 hours, but usually immediately".
Today I purchased a gift card for a much higher amount than I usually do. I have prescriptions to pick up, groceries to get, etc...
Seven hours later, no e-gift card. I called up customer service and I was told that they're having 'technical difficulties'. How can a billion dollar company have such dramatic technical difficulties that it would hold up a major service like electronic gift card delivery?!
My receipt says very clearly that I should expect delivery by 9/26, which contradicts the 24-48 hour window.
I just find the whole situation so frustrating! At the absolute end of the day, I was promised a worst case scenario of 48 hours until delivery, but I don't understand why THIS purchase is the one that has to be so dramatically delayed. After establishing a purchase history on this account already, I honestly thought...I don't know what I thought. :\