Cold call, then a fee that appeared only once I tried to leave
Cold called and offered a £99+VAT advert in their Wedding Focus eMagazine. Invoiced the same day, before I'd made any real decision, and asked to send over my logo. When I looked into the magazine properly, I couldn't find any way for a couple to actually subscribe or read it, and their social media had almost no real engagement, mostly other wedding suppliers following each other rather than brides. When I said I wanted to pull out, I was told a £125+VAT "design fee" now applied, a charge that had never been quoted, never invoiced, and only ever existed buried in small print at the bottom of an email. Nothing was ever signed on my end. Read everything carefully before sending any artwork or logo over, and don't expect the price you're quoted to be the price you're chased for.