I recommend not buying Vert with LTC right now I'm an idiot who didn't do the math.

Bought $100 of LTC through Coinbase, to put into VTC today through Shapeshift.io. 0.6422 LTC after Coinbase fees (4.5% or something). 

That netted me 10.925 VTC through shapeshift. I basically just bought VTC at $9.19. Might have better luck exchanging with BTC, but I didn't because the network is so dang slow at the moment. 

Oh well. Time to HODL.