There are still fees but you loose a lot more going through bittrex since you have transaction fees, you end up paying the asking price a lot of the time and withdrawal fees too.
And the Litecoin over Bitcoin because the transactions are usually a cent or so as apposed to a couple of dollars.
Thanks! I don't have much SBD or Steem to withdraw at a time, so I was hoping to find the most efficient, low cost method.