Upgrading trial accounts?

[wendalf]

Upgrading is not always instant, especially if you upgrade on a weekend it seems. Unfortunately I forgot this every time I upgraded and would be wanting to level a lot on the weekend and had to wait until the next week.

[niknak]

Got the email last night that the accounts have upgraded. So, that was about 48 hrs from when I upgraded them to the time I had full game functionality. I guess thats not too bad.

[ati4]

I upgraded 1 acct on Saturday and it took about 24H to complete.

[Sychosys]

I have upgraded 3 accounts on the US servers over the past week, With out exception they all claimed 'This should be instant but can take up to 72 hours' and took roughly 16-24 hours to complete, even on a weekend. You can still group with them with out any concerns and get to leveling, but they can not invite to the group and they can not receive items from other people (Which if you are RAFing makes it hard to get them their skills until this is gone)

I found it -extremely- amusing to have fully upgraded TBC accounts that could not trade items I mean they took my cash for the upgrades, could they really say No at that point and would I have gotten the cash back?

[falsfire3401]

I just RAFed in a new account on Friday and when I input my key it was instant upgrade, US realms. My buddy who RAF'ed in two accounts about a month back on a Saturday night at 2AM also had them done instantly.

Weird how it may take up to 72 hours sometimes...you'd think that once their system verifies your retail key is valid it would be PRESTO! instant, but who knows what kinda crazy hamsters in wheels they have running some of their systems on the back end...

[Sychosys]

I think they are likely looking for spam accounts. Even at an upgrade price range they are still making alot of money for those ads. I appreciate the extra effort Blizzard takes in giving me a spam free environment, most of the time.