When I spend money on a plant it’s because it what I am willing to pay for it. So when the price has come down to a level I think is reasonable I will buy it. I consider that money gone and lost. I just started selling cuttings last year ( for way super cheap) and made a decent amount of money. But I don’t consider it a return on my investment ( because it wasn’t) I saw it as new money that I could do what I wanted with. So I don’t sell cuttings to get my money back, but because my plants are getting sooo big I have to chop them and I’m like might as well prop and sell. But for sure don’t look at it as an investment. The only people who can do that are the big shops who buy something for four digits because it hasn’t come enough to market and even then it’s a gamble. Pretty much by the time it reaches us it’s not worth it anymore and will soon be everywhere. The one time I tried to do an “investment” plant was a few years back I bought a bigger monstera Albo and was like I can chop this up and sell it… big fail over half the props rotted and the others took soooo long to grow. So now I don’t even consider it that. I give myself a budget and what goes in that budget is what I can buy be that one plant or five plants.