If you were considering buying a snake from Joe Blow and he told you that this snake is het for Lavender Albino and was produced by a well known respected breeder and he wanted $xxxx for it and you wondered about the legitimacy of the snake ( because hets are risky and even honest mix ups can occur), and you knew that the respected breeder implanted chips in all his hets, you could scan the snake and contact the breeder to see if this chip matched his records.In an expensive snake the cost of the chip isn't much more. I see the point.