Rate for Pitches
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If your reasonable, experience based rate is way out of their league for this job then they are looking for someone lower down the ladder than you to work with. Don't talk yourself back into the running by lowering your rates now, just accept the project is not for you and forget it. You'll permanently lower your fees with these people once they know you'll stoop for them.
When this happens to me I suspect the client (the mid-client) is playing who'll blink first with me so I tell them immediately I'm off the table and then I find some shitty dog on the internet and throw them the contact details. I say that I've heard good things about the person and that they're cheap (pick some clown off QBN maybe). Make sure its a real dog you pass on though. They'll come back to you with some more money really quick.
Mid-clients have usually already secured from their client about four times what they're hoping to pay you.