New to the Basset House Scene

Hey Basset Hound Fam! So, my son decided on getting a Basset Hound after his Mom and My Mom unfortunately passed away a few months ago. It would just be so good for him he’s been through so much this year. My question is, I’m not super familiar with the process, and I joined some groups on FB. I made a post in a bunch of them, kind of telling them about my son and if any breeders that had pups out there, we were interested. Only one profile responded. Its “Basset Hound Puppies for Sale”. The person is super nice. But they sent me pictures of 4 dogs, and one of them I reverse image searched and it brought me to a members post in this sub. In the post they say they just bought them like 10 or 11 days ago.

TLDR has anyone had experience buying a pup from a breeder off of FB? We’ve looked at puppyspot and good dog and they definitely have prices I would expect. But I was wondering if anyone’s gone through this process with someone from FB? Any help would be huge as I saw from Google that “puppy scams” aren’t that uncommon.

Thanks Fam!