BitInstant (BI) has been under scrutiny for several months. I'm really surprised that they just recently stopped offering the option for cash deposit (MoneyGram) to your BTC address. It happened once before, but then it was up a little over a week later.

***Will someone please respond to the following question:
   - Should I just not us mt.gox? It sounds like they are the ones who are screwing around. Or is it actually  Bitinstant causing all the delays?

I had great post typed out, far more info, well written and it answered a few questions for fellow posters. I sat here for an hour typing it and fixing every tiny error. I obviously had become signed out at that point but didn't realize it before I hit "Post". Lost it all  

Anyway, I guess we're all newbs if we are posting here. Looking forward to further discussions in future about 2 of my favorite things in the world: Silk Road and BTCs!

P.S. Jackd523 everyone relies on BitInsant, which sucks, because they are the only one I know and you're FORCED to use them. I just noticed yesterday they now only offer 5 options in the "Pay to" drop-down menu (Dwolla, PayPal, BitStamp, VirWox, and VouchX).

Went to deposit funds on Thursday but used CVS Moneygram instead of Walmarts
due to location and time. All was well until I got my confirmation email. It said the
funds got sent to "exchange" account instead of the # I put in there. What the frack?
Went back and forth in emails with MtGox and Bitinstant and finally have MtGox saying that
they've located the deposit and frozen the account but are waiting on the reversal
and redeposit to my account ID. Sadly Bitinstant support seems to be ignoring me
now which really makes me sad. I and family/friends have exchanged quite a few
bitcoins through Bitinstant and MtGox but have always used Walmarts moneygram.
Note to self, don't use CVS anymore. Was wondering if someone might be able to
help me with this? Been several days and the items I wanted to purchase
aren't even up for auction anymore so it'd be really swell if someone could help me
get my $480.00 back >.<

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Jareth Fox

Update.  Finally received Bitcoins ordered Saturday received Thursday.  When I purchased the Bitcoins it was worth about $305.00 which on Saturday was $23.50 for one Bitcoin and i was going to receive 13 Bitcoins.  Today when the transaction went thru one Bitcoin was worth $26.40 and they refunded the fees so I had $316.05 but with the price going up $3.00 a Bitcoin in four days I am still only receiving 12 Bitcoins.  I am not going to even say what that leads me to believe they could be doing.  Oh well at least I got the majority of it back.  Not sure if ill use this service again.

Hey man did you ever get any results from them ? Did you ever get your BTC. I just lost 200 to these people.. I am very mad..They say that they have pushed them through and nothing happened..