You have to sell youself and show them you know what you are up to. If they say "you aren't experienced enough" and you just go "huh not fair /quit" it means you don't want it enough. You can always tell them that you are willing to wait for them to not find anybody else and to ask as a "desperate mesure" worked plenty of times on my alts.
Once in wotlk, i was undergeared for a pug, managed to outclass the other 2 hunters that were way more geared than me, i was proud of myself.