"Gox support is trying to convince me to cancel my USD withdrawal and buy back BTC. If a bank operated like this they would be shutdown in an instant. All I want is to get my money out and never go near the exchange again yet instead I'm involved in a 'discussion' with their support that goes around in circles & never ends."
LAUGH MY ASS OFF.
See this part, "If a bank operated like this they would be shutdown in an instant."
Really genius. Why do you think that any rational person is saying that bitcoin in a bubble/Ponzi scheme/scam and that it can just as easily go to zero tomorrow as $1,000,000 each. Nobody to save you - you 'old miner / timer' goof. No bank, no central authority, no cops, no government, nada, zip, zilch, you have been fleeced and get that into you.
I am focusing all my effort both day and night to rip off / hack / steal / scam every bloody bitcoin I can, and dump it as fast as I sell it. This bitcoin mania is the single biggest opportunity in the history of cybercrime to make it big!
Now back to hacking I go... more noobs wallets to steal
I would do as they suggest, have them cancel the wire, and buy the BTC especially at these prices. MTGox will open up BTC withdrawals long before you will be able to withdraw USD. The USD issue has been going on since last summer. I went though this back in the fall with trapped CAD. Cancelled the wire and bought the BTC during the silk road crash at around 122 CAD per BTC, and withdrew the BTC at the first opportunity.
The danger you face is that they will open BTC withdrawals and the GoxBTC/GoxUSD rate could easily sky-rocket to 200 or 300 USD above the Bitstamp price, and if one has trapped USD then one has real trouble.
Edit: Do not fear Bubba
profit at his expense instead.