I am a new snake owner and started on craigs list b/c i just needed to start somewhere. Here's the interesting part: I saw an ad that looked very tempting but i held back b/c as we all know you have to be cautious with CL. A few days later i see a screenshot of the ad in question posted under a scam alert! I end up emailing the whistle-blower just to say thanks, it turns out she is a breeder (which is how she recognized the scam), we hit it off and i ended up with a wonderful healthy snake hand-selected by her for me at a very reasonable price and i just couldn't be happier. So i guess CL worked out for me but in a very roundabout way! Personally, i'm looking for expensive morphs, just cool pets (not that i don't appreciate them), so i'd say if you see ads by breeders for fancy expensive animals, email them to ask if they have any unadvertised normals.