Gift cards redemption

I traded coins last night for a gift card.  I did get the gift card! 😁 I had the credit transferred to my Google wallet.  I did try to redeem more but it told me that I had to wait 24 hours. I know a lot of people are saying that they turn in coins for gift cards and have been waiting up to a month and still haven't received it. I consider myself fortunate that my transaction went through. I'm going to attempt to trade coins for more gift cards after the 24 hours and see what happens.