In the carpet python world, this is always a big concern. With the 88% designer intergrade jaguars being produced nowadays, how do you know that when you're purchasing an IJ or jungle that it isn't an 88% intergrade sibling that someone is trying to pass off as something easier to sell?
For that matter, how do you know that when you buy a female het toffee that it isn't just a normal? Until you get a chance to breed and prove it out through offspring, it's only as much of a gamble as the person you are buying it from is trustworthy.