I had a Polo withdrawal sit all night long in pending status. tried 4 more times since, nothing. BTC withdraws just fine. Not making me happy.

Yeah, I've been withdrawing everyday for a while at my limit and no problems. Problems started about 2 days ago.
I'm thinking I'll need to convert to BTC and Shapeshift once its out. It's then abou short term timing. Grrrrr
Ouch, won't you lose XMR doing that? Well look at this way - we are not alone, so that's probably a good sign. Hopefully they fix the hotwallet asap, this is getting silly.

Fiat Price appreciation is killing me. I started withdrawing @ $80 and now $268. My fiat balance is still more than when I started withdrawing.
Removing some of the 3rd party risk may be worth the couple of % cost of withdrawing with BTC.