Don't know how close you are to Charlotte, but Repticon will also be there in October. If they have a list of vendors up, you can check out the breeders who will be there and contact them ahead of time, and plan to pick up your ball python from them there (I'd recommend either asking in our Inquiries section or on Fauna Classifieds BOI to see if they are reputable first).

Usually Reptile Basics has thermostats, racks and flexwatt (a type of undertank heater) at the Repticon shows. Rich is a good guy (although he sometimes has someone else selling his product if he can't be there).