Azure Free Trial Subscription stuck in Pending status

[Gumbo Robot]

Signed up for the free trial 2 days ago & I can't do anything with it as my subscription is showing as "pending" in the portal.

Submitted a support call but that seems to have vanished into the ether....

Seems that there are plenty of other people out there with the same problem and no resolution.

I don't know what credit checks or set up they need to do their end but in this day and age I'd expect it to be pretty much instantaneous.

Anyone else experienced this?

[Gumbo Robot]

Signed up for the free trial 2 days ago & I can't do anything with it as my subscription is showing as "pending" in the portal.

Submitted a support call but that seems to have vanished into the ether....

Seems that there are plenty of other people out there with the same problem and no resolution.

I don't know what credit checks or set up they need to do their end but in this day and age I'd expect it to be pretty much instantaneous.

Anyone else experienced this?

Well it did get processed at last.

I didn't realise there was a need for any scurrying around behind the scenes these days but some scurrying certainly seems to happen when you set up an Azure subscription.

Now, if only they'd made that clear on their sign up page