https://blockchain.info/tx/1c14aba4f769942584358bd9e2b5ef76f2c071689edc8206e185281520a109d9
Just paid 4$ for a 25$ transfer and will likely be waiting 24hours for it to get 1 confirmation. It is awfull to use right now, my shops didn't yet add other payment methods so i'm stuck paying john gotti fee.
This is a temporary phenomenon (I hope). Whenever there is a lot of activity, blocks tend to become full and transaction fees shoot up. Hopefully, the dust will settle down and things will go back to normal. people usually won't have a problem paying 0.1mbtc as fees.
That's why Im avoiding small transactions and if possible making a bulk transfers.
Well as long as bitcoin price is continously rising, we can really expect a high fees if we based on USD values on it. Actually Im fine now with BTC0.0005 to BTC0.001 fees of some web exchanges because I must agree to that since I really need to used their exchange services. And since bitcoin price is currently on uptrend, the value of BTC0.001 is rising too.