Quote from: rays.strategies on June 07, 2017, 08:24:25 PM

hi,

im new and a complete noob to this. but i am open and looking into this recently.

i have setup a few wallets and researched up on a few coins that i would like to invest in.

as i am currently situated in canada, it seems that actually getting btcs is the hardest point. locally, i would be paying +7%
and any exchanges does not seem to be 'instant', and +3-5 % when using cc

any advice would be appreciated

thanks.

Use international exchanges not canada based ones. Fee's are not even close to that huge numbers u wrote.
I can recommend kraken, bitstamp, gemini, poloniex and btc-e.
Try one of those.