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.
$8 fee over withdrawing just $48 is an absolute disgrace. They are extortionate fees, everybody should stop using HitBTC.
I think there are only few people in this forum that uses HitBTC. Many of them have no choice because some not-so popular coins are being listed in HitBTC. They should just sell it and leave HitBTC right away or wait for an another exchange to list their coins.
Despite HitBTC being disgraceful, it is surprising that they remains to have very high trading volume. I think there are many people that are used to it and ignore the negative side even if there are already many better exchanges as options? Sad that even with the high fees and high minimum tradeable amounts there are still blind followers.