Hitbtc's deposit and withdrawal fees are absolutely ridiculous. For example, ETBS which I want to trade on HITBTC, it costs 30+ ETBS just for the deposit fee. Its equivalent to $60USD+. It is hindering the growth of token's prices. What should I do if the token of mine is only listed on Hitbtc and coinexchange(0 trading volume)? Etherdelta is the last option but no one really uses it.
I've used Hitbtc once and to be honest the platform is really great and my deposit and withdrawal was fast. The downside was the withdrawal and trading fees are so high and you can't trade your tokens if it's less than 100. Unlike in other exchanges you can trade your tokens even if it's less than 100. I would avoid to use hitbtc for now.
Hitbtc is totally a mess on fees. but regarding on the thing you said about ETHERDELTA, it is a good platform to trade than hitbtc because of the fee! i am serious if the token only have hitbtc and etherdelta you can see more volume on ED than hitbtc as long as they are collecting super high fee.
Hitbtc will be gone soon if they continue doing this.
That's the problem with centralized exchange, most of them are setting ridiculous fee to gain as much profit as they can, another case is when the BTC requires high network fee to be sent. After the lightning network deployed and the required network fee drastically decreased, their withdrawal fee still the same anyway, I'm talking about centralized exchanges and majority of them.