Tiny dogs sold - bad idea? Fraud ahead?

I am looking for a dog that is small that can be with me while I am out of town. Here is the thing, I like lots of pages in facebook where they are against puppy mills and people buying tiny dogs. They ask for people to please save a life and adopt an animal.  After weeks of looking in google I found out that I am some what a Hypocrite person, because when I accidentally found the Asian pages where they are selling tiny puppies I keep on looking at them thinking if I only had the 4,000 dollars I would buy one right now.  I even started googling to see if I could find tiny puppies here in the USA that are sold cheaper, but thats not the case. They buy them from Asia and this sellers here in the USA sell the tiny puppy for more money. This dogs can go as high as 20,000 dollars. OH I wish I was exaggerating this but I am not!   For example, I saw a bit between a few people for a tiny maltese. I saw that the bid started at 2,000 dollars and it ended at 16,000 dollars. How can someone buy a puppy at so high price? Then it came to me, People here in the United States, buy puppies that are tiny at high prices because this people are CELEBRITIES.  I mean the American Page that I was seeing, had Lots of Pictures of stars with their store bought puppies. The owner of the shop feels that it has the right to sell her tiny puppies at a higher price because celebrities are buying tiny puppies from her.  This tiny puppies are purchased outside the USA, then brought here to the USA and they make thousand of dollars in profits. This tiny digs have DNA defects and big eyes compare to normal size dogs.

In the back of my mind I am like if I find a cheap dog that is less than five pounds, I would feel that I won the lotto.  I spent 6 months looking at websites when I was out of town. I know I shouldn't buy a puppy that is less than 5 pounds but I really really want one.

That brings me to an error I almost committed. I was looking at pages where I saw a guy living close to cameroo. He said he couldn't keep his tiny male Maltese as he had no time to be with him as he worked 12 hours a day. He only wanted 300 dollars for the price of the ticket to send him to "you" in the USA. He told us of his female that was going to stay alone without his mate and we asked how much for both he said 700 dollars as it was cheaper to send two dogs at one time. He was sad but he couldn't take care of them. He said he wanted the money sent to the company that was going to ship them to show that he was legit. What the hell, this is fraud. They keep the money, the shipping company and the website are fake and they never send the animals. Please be careful to whom you buy your tiny pets from.