Sometimes dropping the price is the only chance a small time unknown breeder has at selling anything.
Think about it this way, if there was a law saying that all pastel females have to be sold for $200 then every female pastel you see for sale would be the same price. So when I'm looking at 20 posts for the same snake what am I going to go with. Obviously looks first but then I'm looking at the big name breeders.
So in the meantime the no name breeders get screwed. Maybe a solution is to have a site where all the big names post and charge what they want and a site where the no names can post whatever they want then every buyer can choose quality over price.
I understand where your coming from but it will never change..