Weird scam? Or legit?

In a weird situation before.

I have never owned ETH, or had any coin account for that matter before this. I was reached out to my email by someone wanting to purcahce my artwork. The website they wanted me to mint on had a gas fee (0.1eth) but I wasn't able to mint because I didn't actually own any eth.

I told them this, and then I was able to get them to send 0.2 eth to my account to be able to mint these artworks online.

I keep reading that these sites ask for a fee and then the art never gets bought so then you just lose the money you paid for the ghas fee, but I didn't even pay for the minting fee, which is why i'm not sure if it is a scam or not. Because they wouldn't get anything out of me