You pay from a web wallet, a fee that is imposed by the company that owns it.
Blockchain.info can set withdraw fees as they wish, it doesn't matter what the average tx on the blockchain (not.info) is.
Same for locabitcoins which charges a deposit fee!!!!
In the last block, this tx got confirmed..
Total Input 2 BTC
Total Output 1.999995 BTC
Fees 0.000005 BTC
Is this low enough for you?
I guess people only see what they want to see. And this is yet another example of actually how very few people there are "into Bitcoin" that know how to use Bitcoin at its most basic level. They get a Coinbase wallet or similar, have never interacted directly using their own private keys, and then complain about fees and how vulnerable Bitcoin is to hacks.
5% of transactions is also way ridiculous, I have been paying about 141 satoshis on almost every transaction made in the past 2 months. So even if I sent a dollar I'm barely paying 1% (and I don't send $1 payments).