When a prospective customer tells you this, it's one thing.
She doesn't think your stuff worths that amount.
It's not about your price.
It is about how she perceives what you offer.
If she just didn't have the money, that won't be the tone.
So what can you do here?
The easiest is to compare. 1. Compare your price to your competitors, show why yours is your price. E.g. X charges #15k but I charge #12k coz I want to help.
2. Compare your price to her goal. E.g. #12k to look more classy than everyone at the dinner?
3. Compare your price to the price of stuff she gets regularly. E.g. #12k will buy you a meal at Dominos and Coldstone not more than thrice.
4. Compare your price to what people like her spend. E.g. This other chic bought sth that wasn't even up to this for #15k and she's glad.
5. Compare your price to why she has to get it now. E.g. See, it's only #12k now because I want this stock to finish. If it were last week, it'd be #15k.
So you just finished having a conversation with mum..
And it looked like it was a mere conversation...
I mean, she quietly let you air your opinion and defend yourself..
And she calmly explained why Chika is the right man for you.
You...
...don't have a man anyway but you want to go and think about it.
Then you hear, "If you don't consider Chika, shey you know Mrs. Obiagu's daughter, the girl that just came back from U.K... Eh, I saw her with Mama Chika.
I'm telling you because there are like three good men..
..left on earth. If you don't decide fast, we'll stay in this house together. I'm in my husband's house though."