I think the propagated ones may cost more, but in the initial stages to get the uneducated wild hunt and incredibly gruesome shipping methods of essentially dumping corals in bags without any protection and having a little over 60% survival rate, the propagated ones should cost less. just for the pure sake of discouraging wildcaught ones.
So you expect the poor farmers like me who already struggle to compete with wild caught to take a loss on our product just to discourage wild collection. Please let me know if you are willing to go to work every day and end up paying your boss money at the end of the week. It just doesnt make any sense. Its not like any of us are making any money to begin with.
You cant expect the few growers out there to change the coral market by losing all of their money. If hobbiests would support aquaculture and pay a few dollars more on each coral, the small contribution made by each person would add up to an astronomical ammount. Doesnt that make a bit more sense to you?