This is absolutely amazing. So I go on to BTCPOP.co and login so I can try and talk to someone. I post a message on their chat system:
"my withdrawal request has been stuck in 'pending' for 5 days now, any suggestions?"

I received an immediate reply directing to a post of a user who is doing "voucher" trades for people who are trying to cashout. To put that more plainly, it is so difficult to cash out of BTCPOP that a secondary market has materialized for people who simply want to get back THEIR OWN COINS, of course at a steep premium. What a scam.