I purchased an Apple Developer Account on Saturday. It is now Wednesday and my account has still not been activated. I filed a help ticket but it has not been responded to yet.
Thank you for your inquiry. I assure you that Apple is actively managing the creation of the accounts. It appears that the team has been quite busy recently.
That team is not monitoring the forums so I recommend that you contact the developer account support at https://developer.apple.com/contact to obtain a more accurate estimate for your account.
Thanks,
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.