Some people who dont know much about snakes usually cant tell the difference between a morph and a normal. For instance, my mother cant tell my spider apart from my normals.

However, since he knew about exoticsbynature and probably other various breeders he could have just asked one of them to tell him if it was a spider or a normal.

Anyways imo, he is clearly just trying to make a quick buck like most scammers.