new member and new to BTC

[chubbs878]

i’ve come to realize a lot of vendors request BTC only as payment. i’m less than enthusiastic. 

just to start, i went ahead and got the BTC for the DBG donation and i basically spent $25 and ended up with only $15 for the donation. 

i wanted to do a $20 donation but it ended up, i guess, costing me $5 to buy the $20 BTC and then it cost me another $5 to send the BTC. 

WTH is that? i can only imagine if dealing say $500 BTC. how much would i actually be spending USD to send $400-500 vendor magazines? seems like higher $ transactions would cost big $$$ as it’s all a percentage, correct?

so $10 to buy and pay $20 BTC is STEEP. for those experienced, how much do you lose buying & spending several hundred BTC? 

 

[NGC3190]

This sounds unusual.. The most expensive way to buy coin is probably atm and 8-10% at the most Id say after you factor in the price you're buying at. As far as sending goes, sending 15 worth of coin should cost you like 10 cents 

 

[vitruviusbeard]

SHAKE PAY WORKS!!!!!! They use e-transfers but they accepted mine in less then a minute. Then you need to download the mobile app to send it to the electrum wallet which also took less then a minute. There fee is like .01%....to the point were I didnt even notice it. ENJOY!