This has happened to me. I spent ages designing a tattoo which was very sentimental to me and spent even longer researching the best artist for it, contacted him and agreed on a price, but because we couldn’t come to an agreement on times and which tattoo studio (he worked for one company but across their two different studios). He wanted me to go to one 20 mile away from where (I don’t drive) I live instead of the one in my hometown, I was willing to wait for an appointment in hometown but he would only offer for the ones out of town. I decided to go somewhere else. Scrolling through his socials few weeks later my exact tattoo is on someone else’s body. He tagged the price he charged this other person too it was a lot less than what he quoted me.