I have a vair naice kitchen shop man coming to look at our kitchen and redesign it for us. They offer this service for free (obv on the hope/assumption people will go on to buy and have their kitchens installed). A family member has used this place to redo their kitchen and it was amazing and the designs/planning was excellent. When said family member was having kitchen done this shop said to family member when they found out I was needing a kitchen that they would be happy to come along and design with no contract that I would have to get them to do the work etc. So on that basis I rung them up and have booked them in to look. I'm now feeling a bit guilty as kitchen man said when he comes we will have to go through budget before he designs to ensure we have an interest in going with them and I got the impression they were a bit funny about designing kitchens if the customer then didn't go on and use them (which is quite right, I am being cheeky). I'm quite an honest person and I'm now debating whether to just cancel the appointment and design the kitchen myself, but I know they will do such a great job and we want to get this right.
So, is it normal or acceptable to effectively lead on kitchen salesmen to get a free design to take elsewhere? Should I be cancelling the appointment? Hoping for people to reassure me this is quite common but also realise I may be told IAB completely U. I sort of see it as you get a number of building quotes before getting work on the house done, so why wouldn't you go to a couple of kitchen places to get different designs/quotes.