I'm not letting them of the hook so easily. Mt. Gox is going to be stuck with the $5k liability to me until they pack up shop and run, send me the wire, or until they pay me BTC valued at mid-Aug rates.
you punishing yourself bcs of mtgox USD withdrawal problems?! that is smart! it's like a digital hunger strike
they are problably already freaking out over there. but i can understand, why you wouldn't put it back into bitcoins... it would have trippled or even quadrupled. that is really scary!
It would not have been smart to use Mt. Gox attempt to convert BTC --> USD in mid Aug without anticipating exactly this scenario. It was already clear by that time that Mt. Gox was having significant problems. I put exactly the amount of money at risk here that I wished, and because I did also wish to have some fiat, I moved some BTC off Mt. Gox and sold it in another way.
It is true that I choose to make another BTC sale which is underway now due in part to the fact that Mt. Gox is sitting on the $5k, but this is not Mt. Gox's fault exactly.
