$75 for a male pastel sounds about right.

I'm not a breeder but I have been thinking about breeding for awhile now might not be much help but if you want to start think about how ready you are to keep snakes that don't sell.

also think about the market now a days some snakes are selling cheap because there is a lot of breeders producing single gene ball pythons ex. spiders, pastels, pinstripes. even some double gene snakes are going cheap

in my opinion recessive snakes are good project if you plan on breeding you might want to start off with visual morphs that are het. for something.