MIA, MIM, MIJ, MIK, MIC, MII, etc... they can be manufactured in any of these countries, or a bunch of others, and be effectively the same product... the key thing for all sellers is what they can make to survive as a business...
As a deal, a group of bodies is just that...
Now, where is that guy who is selling the box of necks...
The MII 20th Anni Jazz I picked up for £68 (poorly advertised) and had a wonderful sound, from the get-go; easily as good as any Fender I've ever played... the only issue was a sun-bleached scratchplate that I junked... I wanted a fretless Jazz and picked up a MM licenced one with an "ebanol" type top for £100... It's spot-on... Scott supplied me a pair of cast-off Fender pups from his MIA Jazz from '08 (? iirc) and the sound is no better, but for me the esthetics of the neck pup being slightly smaller and poles lining up with the strings was a psych thing...
I am holding the neck for the (hopeful at present) day when I have enough readies to approach Carlo for a T'bird or Explorer unfin body to go with it, but that's wish-list stuff at the mo...
A box of bodies would be a good deal for a builder to play with... someone with a good box of complementary parts to go with... or if you sold parts for a living and had the time to sell them as individual items... there is a market...
As an aside, one of the bodies had a pair of doubled-up Jazz style pups, which is what I've considered for one of mine with a pair of (single) Jazz pups in a TBII position...