the confirmations come really slowly nowadays with smaller fees, we need to include huge fees unfortunately to get transactions confirmed
Well this is happening and even worst than others. I have read a problem that on his transaction he almost lost 0.01 for the transaction fees that he had for. But it seems that the same problem that he is still not able to be confirmed and sent the bitcoin to someone for his payment. I don't know maybe the miners are having problems too.
All depends on the current load of the network.