Avoiding high bitcoin fees

[sexycoin69]

Is it cheaper to buy litecoin --> send to exchange and sell for bitcoin (take a 0.1-0.25%) loss?? Than to buy bitcoin directly, in my head it seems better.

Or even ethereum if your Alts trade in eth pairs?

[Axcelerant]

You can deposit money directly to the exchange and buy BTC at market price losing only 0.25%.

[galangal]

and quite possibly faster too if you need to trade in a hurry. BTC can take forever and a day to make the required confirmations. And for noobs like me, experience can be an expensive teacher. Yes, im speaking of the fees 

[fcmatt]

Is it cheaper to buy litecoin --> send to exchange and sell for bitcoin (take a 0.1-0.25%) loss?? Than to buy bitcoin directly, in my head it seems better.

Or even ethereum if your Alts trade in eth pairs?

i think that is a good option, since bitcoin fees nowdays is high
and nowdays the confirmation transaction on bitcoin is a bit lagh since there is 66k unconfirmed transaction that waiting to get confirm