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One way or another, there is no fucking way I'm going to give Mt. Gox the easy out of cashing me out at today's prices. If they want to roll back the transaction chain and give me the 50 BTC that results, I'm game. I made that offer in a semi-formal manner (and documented it.) Unsurprisingly I've not heard anything back.
Fair enough. To add to that though, I doubt many of these other exchanges would even be up and running had they lost 10M to a bunch of government thieves and that other lot.
I've always been relatively impressed with a lot of aspects of Mt. Gox throughout the years, and that remains the case today. I have no trouble imagining reasons why they could have trouble's wiring me money so I don't necessarily blame them for the failure.
I don't, however, see any legitimate reason why they should lie to me and set invalid expectations through their support channels. Or no legitimate reasons which have a positive side at least. That is the main reason they are on my shit-list.
MtGox support has a lot of potential to improve. If I ran gox, I would've been ashamed of the lack of quality in terms of support. I think some of the support people needs to be fired, and the wages raised, and some better people be put in.
Here's some free advice:
1. Hire some people that are fairly intelligent and that understand bitcoin and IT in general.
2. Pay them a little bit more, so they will stay.
3. When responding to support tickets. First read the ticket in full, and understand the issue at hand. If the support person do not understand the issue at hand, escalate it to 2nd line support. There's nothing to be ashamed of in that regard. It's just that scripted responses does not actually help much. A lot of the cases are cases where individual responses are required.
4. Make it a priority to solve customer tickets. And by solving, not just by closing them, but actually solving the problems, so the customer will be satisfied.
I'm aware there is a lot of customers, and that the support division is overloaded, but I'm sure most customers rather would wait 3 days, and then get an intelligent answer attending to the issue at hand, than some half assed 'I don't care - did not read your mail - here's a scripted reply - let's cross our fingers and hope it helps'-kindof reply.