In reality that would only be the first of several meetings. It might be funny if it wasn't true. I recall a couple of years back I was trying to purchase a PO

In reality that would only be the first of several meetings. It might be funny if it wasn't true. I recall a couple of years back I was trying to purchase a POEditor subscription, which is $14/m. This was for a large dev project where the customer was paying us around $10M. After several meetings encompassing a ridiculous number of people, many of whom weren't related to the project in any way, I added up the costs and showed the PM: it was well into 5 figures, not accounting for loss of productive time for our customer. The PM just shrugged, "that's the way it works, they won't change".