Having trouble with PS Network Cards

[iaDazz]

I want to fund my PSN Wallet and download games instead of buying them. I have a region 1 PS4. I recently asked my cousin in Canada to buy $70 worth of Network Cards of Region 1 and Whatsapp me the codes and I'll redeem it. But my console kept giving me an "Invalid code" error. He bought 2 more cards and the same result. He even tried it from there (accessing my PSN via a PC) but same result.

I asked him five times and he assured me that he bought region 1 cards. Anyways the cards got returned so no harm done. But I don't understand what the problem is. I bought my PSN Plus Membership from Pakistan (that also Region 1) so there can't be a problem with my PSN account. Does anyone have an idea?

 

[azambannu]

Might be the Caps lock issue... You need to type in the upper caps. And these past few days psn network went under maintenance and servers are also under load. Try again later

 

[iaDazz]

I used caps and the servers were under maintenance a couple weeks back. I tried it last night. Is it because they were bought from Canada? But the region was the same as my PSN. :S

 

[iaDazz]

Problem solved. Turns out Region 1 is both US and Canada so you need to get Region 1 USA and Region 1 Canada separately. He didn't know so he mistakenly got Region 1 Canada.