We’ve done both. Haven’t paid that much but we were raising pets. I bought a springer from a farmer in Kansas and paid a pretty good premium for. She’s 11 now and starting to show her age a lot. I mainly bought from him be ause when I pulled up at his place in Kansas, all his dogs came running to meet me. They were farm dogs and the only one confined was the mama dog and her pups. And they were ‘confined’ in his house.
And she acts like a farm dog too. (both good and bad!)

BKB