Worst I had was 72 business days but it was a peak withdraw period, lot of cash outs. Current is at 45 business (*theory test nudge directed at MA agent), I imagine 2-3 weeks more, perhaps less. Best was around 32 business days, but support was decent back then. I assume 6 months, so at least I will be surprised either way.
I generally do 10k+ ped bank transfers only, it seems larger ones tend to go quicker. Most was something like 120k ped, the 1st half of my complete cash-out in '08. They all eventually come.
What would be really interesting - if those whiners also posted their ways of getting those PEDs - if it resellers (I even dropped prefix "fucking", such cool I am) - so there probably shitloads of transactions to be checked, and probably that's the cause of massive delays, since all this shit takes time. Especially when those transactions are P2P.
I am unsure if resellers have much of anything to do with it. Everything is resold here, I take raw materials and resell them assembled. Miners take probes and resell them as ores. They just have a policy that protects them against fraud and liability at request of the investors probably, I doubt they do much of any actual data checking.
For me any withdrawls are mostly to pay the capital I invested here on my return back with gains on those investments, like some rare bps/CLDs/ship/shops.. and the like. I'm am not quite paid off yet, but closing on it, I think in a little over a year I will have recouped most of what I have put in over the last 4, which was sizable.
Until then the only actual profit I would see is if skills and items are all liquidated, and I don't really want to regret selling skills again, even if its profit. I would rather the payoff take a couple more years than sell my skills.
Last time I thought Entropia beat me, my skills came out and made an overall surprising profit, with regrets upon coming back.