[Aoife]

Yup. Yer too nice.

Is sales. Don't see anything new here. He apparently at least inquired as to why not go with you, and it's not necessarily his business to push them away if they want to go with him. I don't see what his religion has to do with it.

Sucks.

You take what you can get, and the most aggressive is the most successful usually.

I "don't have money" for personal training. And I "don't have money" for regular hair appointments. I DO have money for a rather expensive gym membership, and many other things in my life. If a person has a gym membership, they prolly have money for a training package. However, they "don't have the money" because their money is being spent elsewhere. Some of them you could prolly convince that a training session is more important than new shoes or dinner at Chili's or whatever number of things they spend their money on. Some not so much. But it's true that often having no money is an "excuse." You're not dealing with a poor segment of the population. To free up people's money you have to change their priorities.