First fail at outsourcing, looking for feedback

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Hi entrepreneurs,

I just tried to outsource a simple service for the first time, and my experience was disastrous. Is that normal? Am I using the right site for this?

Let me explain how it went.

1) I created a few slides. But because I'm totally unskilled in design I was looking for someone who could improve on that. The result is basically 11 slides, containing a few images, a table, and a graph generated from a google spreadsheet.

2) Now I went looking for experts on a website. I search for "powerpoint". All the offers seem to be around $5, which is kind of low in my understanding but okay.

3) Most of them I don't like but I decide on three offers who seem done reasonably well enough. I send messages and in one case even an order for about $20 because he said he does the standard gig only for up to 9 slides and as I said I considered $5 too low anyway.

4) But now I have the ordered one and another one saying they want $50 or more for that, even adding some requirements like that some of the slides will be left unchanged.

So, yeah. That's it. Quite frustrating for the first attempt. Nearly zero interesting offers, it doesn't seem to be possible to find reasonable prices. And despite the corresponding messaged offers seem more reasonable it feels like getting cheated after showing interest in a deal that was only 5-10% of what they finally decide they want.

So, is that normal? Do I have to adapt my expectations? Did I maybe choose the wrong website or searched for the wrong thing? Is it normal that I should expect to pay 10x the initially advertised price if I want real value?

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