Is raising prices on your ad frowned upon when you are selling large multiples of the same thing?
I am a plant collector and have some rare/uncommon plants. They grow extremely well under my care and I always have surplus. In the past I have frequently posted them on marketplace about 50-75% below what others normally do for the same plants in my area. Almost all are snapped up within a few days. I'm not a shop looking to make profits, just to supplement my hobby and talk to folks in the plant community.
Now I am heavily downsizing my collection due to time and space constraints. I have these large "mother plants" that are worth several hundreds each, even at a large discount. I'm not comfortable dealing with that amount of cash with strangers.
So my plan is to chop them down into cuttings and bundle them, I plan to sell the cuttings 90% below what others list them as.
My question is a moral one, if I post the ad and have too many people want them, can I adjust the price or is that heavily frowned upon?
In the past this has happened when I'm selling a few cuttings or baby plants at a time, I always kept my price and committed to the first buyers. I only increased my prices for the same cuttings weeks/months later for new ads when I had more to sell.
This time I need to sell most of my plants over the next week or two not months. Hence the extreme discount, but I also don't want to discount so much that I miss out on what I could be getting. What would you do?
Please note I don't want to look into the hassle of shipping plants.