Definitely go and research different breeders. Start digging on facebook. Make friends with breeders. I have only 4 snakes at the moment, but I talk to numerous breeders. Now, most big breeders will know a lot of the smaller breeders as well. So what I do is if I see an animal for sale, whether it be on gumtree, facebook or reptile classifieds, I will talk to the seller and get their name, then id ask around the breeders to see if they know them. Now if this is your first snake, I would definitely recommend talking to a proper breeder. Some others might not agree, however recently there have been multiple scams, multiple people getting "perfectly healthy and feeding animals" and then they are sick or they don't feed regularly.
Where are you located? I might be able to help out. I live in Brisbane and know quite a few people these days.