Probably you were offered those boxes because the auctions were won by non-european OTDers
and they were not going to ship abroad.

It happened to me with a watch, the seller did not want to ship to Europe,
so i asked a great friend in US if he could receive it for me (thanks again J.!)

: Hi all
: yes I search one, therefore I was part of 2 of these auctions, in
: both auctions ( with different sellers) seller send me an offer
: for 2nd bidder to overtake the deal. In one case of 220924340693
: 750 Euro and in the other one 320828425282 the seller asked 859
: . For me it is clear that sellers have improved with own high
: bids and then offer it directly to the second bidder. That is
: the way to have most effective results. The auctions were not
: open to US bidders my be you can't see them. even once I saw
: only a clip for 167 € in Zurich

: best to all
: michael