I'm curious if anyone does this?

Seeing as how normals are almost given away for shipping costs, they seem like a detriment to the hobby. Does anyone else ever think about all the snakes they produce that are undesirable? Or is this too noble of an ideal?

I was looking at a breeders list of '09 clutches (7 pages worth) and for 80-90% of the pairings, the females were normal. Quantity over quality?

I can see the cost savings up front for those of us who aren't professionals. I love genetic stripes. I could get a 1.1 100% het pair for $200-300 where as a pair of actual genetic stripes would be ~$1400. The real pair would produce 100% genetic stripe offspring. The het pair would produce, for a couple generations, a bunch of normals, some possible hets and a couple real ones. Does the money saved up front equal the cost of all these extras? Is it fair to the snakes when we have control of this?

I can also see the side that enjoys taking a couple of hets and breeding them until you get what you're looking for. I played a card game in middle school/high school called Magic: The Gathering and it was more exciting to buy a pack of cards with one potential rare over and over than to just buy the card you wanted specifically which would probably be cheaper in the long run.