the-price-pushback

name	the-price-pushback
description	Simulate the client who grinds on your price — the budget theater, the competitor quote, the scope squeeze — against your actual offer, with a debrief on where you caved and what holding would have sounded like. Use when asked simulate a client negotiating my rate, practice price pushback, they said I'm too expensive, or stress-test my pricing conversation. Produces the negotiation transcript with the client's private playbook notes, the deal outcome, and a debrief on every concession with its stronger alternative.
homepage	https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/skill/the-price-pushback.html
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The Price Pushback Skill

Every freelancer loses the same negotiation for years before noticing it's the same negotiation: the sharp intake of breath, the mysterious budget ceiling, the competitor who's "half your price," the request to "just trim the number, same scope." This skill plays the client running that playbook against your real offer — each move labeled in their private notes — then debriefs every point where you softened, with the exact words that would have held. The goal isn't winning every deal; it's never again negotiating against yourself.

What This Skill Produces

• The transcript — the pricing conversation, 10–16 exchanges, with the client's private note naming each move as they run it
• The outcome — deal / no-deal / deal-at-what-terms, and what the client's notes say they'd actually have paid
• The debrief — every concession moment, the pressure move that caused it, and the hold that was available