Is there any way to repurchase an item that eBay has ‘restricted’?

I recently bought an item in the USA which was to be shipped to me using the eBay International Shipping scheme, but although it left the seller OK, it was stopped by eBay before it was shipped to the UK. They said it was incorrectly packaged, so couldn’t be shipped. I was refunded, but the seller was permitted to keep the fee I’d originally paid for the item. The item will not be returned to the seller – it’s going to be ‘liquidated’ which means either re-sold or destroyed, whichever helps eBay best recoup their losses. If at all possible I would like to repurchase the item at the original cost and arrange alternative shipping, but there seems to be no way to do this, and eBay customer services won’t say anything except that don’t know or cannot comment on the liquidation process. This is really frustrating because the item is a rare vintage piece – it’s not something that will come up on eBay every week or even every year, and I hate the thought that it might be destroyed because of a packaging error. I’ve got nowhere on this with eBay customer services, eBay Twitter, or with the eBay International Shipping specialist advisors – if you have any suggestions of who else I might contact I’d be really grateful to hear them.