There's nothing "cheap" about ball pythons. Your experience shouldn't be cheap, you shouldn't cheapen your experience by settling for cheap or only looking for cheap over quality.
That's my problem with using the word cheap, when it has to do with ball pythons (or any living creature in my care).
all about how you look at it, you look at the word cheap a lot differently then I do. So saying you can get a pastel for $200.00 to me is infact cheap. Never said anything about the snake itself, just the price.