I know dog breeders. None of them, especially any who might deal in $10k value puppies (which is preposterous - I’d want a baby elephant for that, shipping included) - would ever operate this way.
Everyone can believe it if they choose. I just don’t.
Having a complete stranger stand in my kitchen and hand me $3500 cash for a Frenchie made a believer out of me. Solid lineage, papered, chipped, birthed by cesarian, cute as a cherub’s butt...this was 5 years ago. Artificial insemination did another added depends. This breed would not exist without human intervention.