This is silly. If you have the liquidity, who cares if you have to wait 6 weeks for free money? This is why other exchanges are dry. Not everyone is a broke college kid for whom six weeks waiting for money is a life-stopping crash
After a lot of back and forth they said I could pay a 5% fee and get my USD in 7 days. Basically a bribe for them to convert to JPY and send the transfer through..
At the time, they said withdrawals would take 2 weeks.. Now if they say 6 weeks you should pray :p
I ended up buying back some BTC (at about 10% loss due to price) and then selling later on bitstamp due to the recent price rise. Worked out okay for me but please DO NOT USE GOX FOR USD.