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Would it be better for breeders to sell hets or albinos for that matter as singles instead of a price for pairs?
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Ideally, yes.
The problem that is run into is females are, in the vast majority of cases, easier to sell than males. For instance you'll sell 1.2 much faster as a group than you will 2.1.
Breeders are often worried about getting stuck with a bunch of males, so to offset that possibility they require a male to be purchased with a female. You see this very often with snakes such as womas where there is a significant price difference between the sexes.
I did this myself for a long time, since it was the regular practice, but I finally realized I was inadvertantly encouraging inbreeding. If someone bought a pair from me I felt in many cases since they had a pair, they wouldn't bother getting another pair from another breeder for unrelated bloodlines.
I did come to a compromise on the issue for species where I have not yet acquired sufficiently diverse bloodlines. I price the sexes individually, but single females are more expensive than single males. I have found this results in several things happening. People that want an additional unrelated female for their colony can have one, and people who just want a pet snake will often opt for the less expensive single male. Of course the single pet issue would rarely apply with something like albino boas.
A responsible breeder however will avoid the issue entirely by having a diverse collection himself. If you have 2.2 unrelated breeders at a minimum, you can offer unrelated pairs. Going a step further and maintaining 4.4 unrelated individuals allows you to provide a founding colony of 2.2 unrelated specimens entirely from your own stock.
With the morphs, this is of course more difficult due to both the expense and the inherent lack of diversity in the bloodlines to begin with.
Breeders should do everything they can though to provide unrelated animals, and if they cannot then they shouldn't require the purchase of pairs.
Some try to take the cheap route and buy one founding male, make some hets and breed them back to the father, never adding any additional blood. Their offspring are already the products of related breedings, and are then sold as pairs to other prospective breeders.
The first priority for a breeder should always be to diversify their stock. Buy another animal, or trade offspring with another breeder whose lines aren't related to yours.
The person buying the siblings does bear some of the responsibility of the resulting inbreeding of course, but so does the initial breeder if he has made no effort to prevent it himself.
I do believe that eventually buyers will become more educated on these issues and begin requiring unrelated stock whenever possible. Once this happens, the breeders will begin to put more effort into building breeding colonies rather than pairs, so they can satisfy the buyers needs.
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