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Whilst your 'USD' or BTC is in MTGox's system you don't really have full control over it. Getting USD out is hard, getting BTC out is easy.
If you believe MTGox will sort out their fiat payouts then by all means buy BTC elsewhere and sell them on gox, then you have to wait, and wait, and wait to see if you'll ever see the balance on their site in your bank account/hand.
Alot of people get fed up, buy BTC and transfer them to a wallet they have true control over or an exchange site that will actually give them their 'real' money.
BTC-E is nice and cheap to buy BTC - a good few quid less than bitstamp which many darknet sites use as their reference, but hard to get £/$ into - the opposite side of the coin.
What do you mean they buy bitcoin to transfer out? Don't they already have bitcoin? If not, what do they use to buy bitcoins?
Whilst your 'USD' or BTC is in MTGox's system you don't really have full control over it. Getting USD out is hard, getting BTC out is easy.
If you believe MTGox will sort out their fiat payouts then by all means buy BTC elsewhere and sell them on gox, then you have to wait, and wait, and wait to see if you'll ever see the balance on their site in your bank account/hand.
Alot of people get fed up, buy BTC and transfer them to a wallet they have true control over or an exchange site that will actually give them their 'real' money.
BTC-E is nice and cheap to buy BTC - a good few quid less than bitstamp which many darknet sites use as their reference, but hard to get £/$ into - the opposite side of the coin.
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