How about this one? My sister played a gig for free for a friend of hers who was trying to promote songwriters in our area. The show that was videotaped for some cable thing that also had a website. Her performance is on their website. Someone asked for a copy to help promote somtehing else she was doing. She contacted these guys and they said sure, send us $50.

They also "invited" her to play a gig that would have about seven or eight different acts. It was an afternoon thing, they were going to film it for their show. It was to be done at Toronto's famous El Macombo. I think they asked for $100 from her, maybe more. She graciously passed. The show did go on though, someone we kind of know sent us an e-mail saying that they were excited to be playing it.