Buying Litecoins in the UK

[wolf359]

Hi All,

I'm looking to buy Litecoins in the UK with GBP - however, the very few exchanges I've found willing to accept GBP have exorbitant mark ups/commissions.  It looks to me as though I'll  have to go through the GBP-BTC-LTC route at the moment.  However, I know buyers can hook up with sellers directly and have a one on one trade, is this recommended?  I'd appreciate any guidance, thanks.

[pinball]

Well imagine it's not much different from buying something on Gumtree if you look at one of the local sellers/buyers sites.  Although the prices always have a bit of a premium attached to them.
I've used Bitstamp to go from GBP->BTC and didn't have any problems.

[chalkyuk]

As a newbie myself. I can only offer this. if you hook up and do some trading find a good honest member to act as middle man for the exchange....