The cheapest quote is never the cheapest project.
It starts cheap because something was left out. The revisions. The file prep. The rounds of feedback. The person who answers the phone when it goes wrong.
So the price grows in the middle, where no one was watching. Three extra rounds at an hourly rate. A reprint because the files weren’t press-ready. A week of your time managing what you thought you’d outsourced.
And the most expensive part isn’t on any invoice. It’s the launch that slipped, the event that went out with the wrong logo, the campaign that looked like a first draft.
You don’t pay for the vendor. You pay for the outcome. The cheap one charges you twice — once in money, once in everything else.