Managed to buy 10 coins late last week from some Localbitcoins dude and see them almost double in value by tonight, so I can't bitch too much.
I doubt my $10k will get me 50 coins any time soon though, as I would have got if Virtex hadn't turned my "3-5 business days" into almost 2 months.
Feel for you try using affiliate as it might speed things up (Selfless sig advertising but I got the permission yesterday so kind of excited to be able to be like its shiny I think it does accelerate the process for cavirtex registration and even gives you a rebate if you use it since that's an affiliate power and better than no income from trading just need to tell me you used the URL so I can assign it a rebate address)
https://www.cavirtex.com/Z/10454