I was on BTC-e a few minutes before it went down. You could buy BTC at 97.xx and on MT Gox it was in the 102.xx - 103.xx range.
I have never deposit USD to buy BTC and I was trying to do this when the site went down. I am still new to Bitcoins but it seems that the spread between BTC-e and MT Gox was large...is this normal? This could be a reason it is down at the moment.
Bitdigger2013
nothing new
read the ANN mt posted
you cant cash out usd on mt right now.
so loads btc goes to other exchange and changes to usd
which pushes the price down
and also btc-e usd deposit cost more then others
a lot of reasons why there are gaps between all exchange