How much did you pay for it? I promise you, no one is going to sell a fire/spotnose for a common price.

It's not a spotnose....the normal ball python pattern can have many, many different aberrations...including the occasional spot on the nose. As for whether or not it is a fire...I'm not expert enough on them to recognize them all the time. Was it sold to you as a fire? Did you pay significantly more than what a normal bp would cost?