Well, I have tried to contact the seller but no answer. Maybe he had bad experience shipping to europe. In the past other sellers did open the auction even to no US bidders, after asking, but....no this time.
Geoff, what can I say? If you have an ebay account and you want to go for it I will be grateful to you really really a lot. Obviously I would send you the money for the item plus shipping to Italy plus every kind of expense you might have.