what do you call someone who doesn't want to pay for another person's skills [closed]
Merriam-Webster has
cheapskate noun: a miserly or stingy person
especially : one who tries to avoid paying a fair share of costs or expenses
The word skinflint comes to mind:
a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser
Example of usage:
He was so mean, would ask the barber for a free haircut. But the skinflint was actually a very wealthy man.
Word origin of 'skinflint'
C18: referring to a person so avaricious that he would skin (swindle) a flint
In other words, a skinflint would swindle a stone to save money.