How can you say he's wrong? What are you basing this off? You don't know how much the fees are going to be to exchange bitcoin, but it'll obviously have to be lower less there'd be no point in using it. The whole selling point of Bitcoin is because of the low fees, without it people wont use it or go to places where the fees are considerably less.
I was basing it on a comparison between Dabs' BTC/PHP exchange and Xoom.com:
Dabs' exchange charges a fee of 10% of Philippine Pesos on the sell, and also 10% of the Pesos on the buy.
(If you buy 4 bitcoins for 84,616 PHP (about $1,935 US), you pay an additional 846.16 PHP fee to the exchange (about $20 US fee).
(If you sell 4 bitcoins for 81,737 PHP (about $1,870 US), you pay an additional 817.37 PHP fee to the exchange (about $19 US fee).
With Xoom.com you can send up to $2,999 US to the Philippines (about 131,100 PHP) for a $4.99 US fee (about 220 PHP).