i love ball pythons and i pump gas for a living lol, but i managed to get a decent collection in the past 2-3 years, i paid total for my racks and bps about 3k but the most on one snake would be a male lesser that came with a female pastel and two normals for 650$. i did do a trade 2 months ago to the same guy i bought the lesser and others, for a toshiba laptop (gave him the laptop then) and i am still waiting on one more snake to hatch. id guess the laptop is worth around 700$ but im getting a cinny female, 1.1 het albinos, and a spider male that should be hatching soon. i also dont mind trying to prove out my own hets as long as there from "bigger" breeders.