We all experienced or have heard about this. We need a service and become a proposal from a legitimate vendor and we find it is too much or it just does not fit in our budget. Now we are looking for the same service but for a cheaper price and fortunately there is this nice guy who is telling us he will take care. He is offering the service we need "on the side" and he offers us a good price. Like "just pay me a 1000 dollar for now and we will see more later", we are glad. That sounds like a good deal when our proposal for a let's say  a professional web site was $5000. Ok, we pay and our friend get started and after a week he has done certain things and he comes back inquiring more money for the " next steps". we are ok with that since we have only paid a 1000 dollars so far. After a week our friend has finished some more steps and is inquiring money again, this time $2000 and so on. To make a long story short after you pass 6000 dollars we ask ourselves the first time if the vendor with the "professional proposal wouldn't have been the better deal, given that not to much is done in our new website. But now it's to late and our friend gets really greedy and is telling us that the project is much bigger then he assumed and he only can finish the website for another $3000. Now we are trapped. In the real case of one of my friends, he had paid 8500 dollars before pulling the emergency break and ended up going back to the serious vendor paying the price in the proposal additional to the money already spent and off course since the nice guy did this job "on the side" he is gone and there is no money to recover.

 

After spending all this money and having a lot of frustration he found out that the higher price could be the smaller investment overall.