I think this is the fundamental issue. You're assuming mispricing on a very liquid option traded by the most sophisticated portion of the trading population. A mispricing you see and they don't, despite having never sold options before. Possible, I don't know you background you and may have done some extensive work on this, but given what you've conveyed so far it seems pretty improbable.
Buy a /VX future or get synthetically long VIX and sell call spreads against VXX every time it pops and begins to move back down.