Of course no breeder wants to mix snakes up! Bad for your rep, and your pocket book.
Its bound to happen tho!
I feel like as a whole the industry is very professional, but its not hard to breed BPs, leave a pair in a tank and it's likely to happen... we've all seen hack breeders, I know I have! It's where I got my snake from...

I see it said a lot to "trust your breeder" that's certainly sound advice, I'm sure there plenty of unscrupulous people out there that are willing to do anything for a buck, including mislabel a normal as something more expensive, but I think a lot of well meaning, less organized individuals could easily mix up hets, or ever subtle morphs, especially if they are overwhelmed by larger numbers than they are used to. That leaves someone short changed ofcourse, but what about the other snake, if a normal is sold as a het or a fire/Spector/phantom, then there's going to be a "normal" that's actually a het or a subtle morph out there, maybe (probably)already sold! One person gets lucky(morph for normal price) the other get unlucky(ripped off)

Am I totally off base? Or do you agree that there's likely many not so normal normals out there?

The other scenario is related to the pet trade, I'm currently trying to rehab a bunch of dumped snakes, 2 of which are exceptional looking animals regardless of their genes!
Their current owner has very little info on them and all came from different homes, none were breeders, all pets, neglected ones at that!
I well know normals can be exceptional beautiful and are extremely varied!
People buy what they like, they don't always know much about it, or why it's special and at the point they are abandoning it, they don't care what it is!
Im not trying to prove anything about theses snakes, they just got me thinking about it...

Obviously a vivid morph isn't going to languish around some pet shop! Albinos and pied would fly out the door! But a mute colored genetic banded? I don't know...

Again, what do you folks think?
Am I just imagining this scenario, I dont think I am, but it might be far more unlikely than I think...

Id love to know what people with more experience think about this,like I say, I'm not trying to prove a thing about the snakes, I know that can only really be done by breeding them.