Not to worry; the company I work for now secured garden.ca on behalf of a client. They did pay $7500 but were willing to go higher if necessary. It seems sibername wanted a payment via wire transfer (not sure why?) but that is what is holding up the change to the admin and tech contacts.
As for parking vs developing, very few of our clients are "monetizers", most are end users or investors who buy domains like "stock".
Cheers,
Jen