I'd call and ask assistant from the resort you wanted to go, most of them know and has access to all the info or perhaps you can look under vacationsection on LA newspaper, sometimes there's a small section for any vacation rental properties. Hope that helps.
Nah..bro, that's not shill bidding, it just to protect the bidder from other seller. In some cases, there's some other seller who contact the highestbidder and offering their own stuffs, that's not only hurt the ebay overall but the original seller as well. Besides those auctions ended at...
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- Due to what happen on the economy now days (credit crunch, higher oil and ect) FED/Bernake had to cut the interest rate to make the market liquid, that makesless value of US.dollar against other currencies.
- As for now it's better to convert/hedge your money into gold until...