Ok, basically my exact issues with the idea being echoed here, nice to hear.

And Brian, I do absolutely understand your additional concerns relating specifically to people who are not already familiar with the process, and I am new here so I can understand your presumption, however I think it's safe to say that those concerns do not apply here. I have kept and bred ball pythons in the past and am intimately familiar with their care and housing.

To your point though, the person who brought the idea up is not a reptile person at all, he is an incredible businessman though, which was the only reason I even gave it the thought, or put up the thread here to begin with. He would have no way of genuinely understanding the reasons why it would not be feasible to this industry outside of the objections I noted up front to him. His response to that was to offer stickers, t-shirts, hats, etc as rewards on the crowdfunding instead of reptiles, which simply does not seem to me to carry the weight necessary to function.