However, transaction fees are transaction fees. It doesn't matter that the transaction Failed, as long as it was mined
He doesnt know what really happened to his transaction, probably that is the only reason of why he posted it in here.
Anyway, the ethereum blockchain has been giving us a lot of issues lately, it has been pretty slowly since yesterday, and no one knows the real reason of that.
I spent more than 0.005 worth of ethereum in order to send a transaction, and it got confirmed one hour later, this is insane, because normally they use to take less than ten minutes to get all the confirmations.
It will get fixed soon, but a lot of ICO's have cancelled their preico's or delayed them becuase of this issue.