are these good markers

Doesn't look like it to me, but that does not mean that it is not a het.

One reason why markers are UNRELIABLE!

Buy from a REPUTABLE breeder, and unless this guy has references, i would steer clear.

well i decided to skip on this. he said she was a problem feeder and is barely over 1000 grams and is a 06 female. i wouldn't breed her at that weight and the point was to put her with my friends pied so we could get some early 09. no biggie though. we are going to put his pied with my female norm and make some hets and then hit it a couple of years down the road. really wanted pied next year though.

Save up and get one if you want a pied that bad. That's what I'm doing.

Eh 2000 bucks for a pied or 1000 for a het pied. Tough call. Yeah I have to agree that saving up for an actual pied would be a better use of your money and you would be able to breed and get 100% pied offspring, or even just breed her to something else and get het pieds (which is where you want to breed to some morph, that's when you wind up with the coolest stuff and, personally, I want to see a piebald firefly :3 )