Why was it rejected? I just withdrew $48 ETH paying $8 as fee without getting any such message and I have never completed KYC on Hitbtc. May be they are doing it just to new accounts?
$8 fees? Serious? That's nearly 0.05 ETH. Why don't you use another exchange which requires you 0.01 ETH to withdraw? Stop giving them free money dude.
Yeah, it was about 0.047 and I found it cheaper than paying 0.0015 fee to withdraw via BTC. The $48 I earned by selling my altcoins that were lying since a year. Other altcoins that I have deposited on hitbtc have higher withdrawal fee of $20. Using another exchange was not an option as the coins had been lying with Hitbtc since a year and I couldn't withdraw them. One year back, things were find as coins were worth $1k+ but not now.