I emailed them as well and was told "the bag will not but sold but check out all the awesome products and great work by Tom Sachs/Nike at Nikecraft.com."
not sure which products besides the shoe they're referring to but odd that they told you the bag was going to be released and told me the...
i thought this was the case too but from what I saw of the Milan and Paris drop, it looks like JB rented out warehouse spaces and had their employees sign people up for the sneakers.
you live in nyc? then possibly especially cuz spoofing will basically be negated through QR code or whatever they use at location on SNKRS. so ppl outside of those cities cant get them
they might be doing some kind of augmented reality that requires access to your phones camera, so simply spoofing location may not work... http://news.nike.com/news/nike-snkrs-augmented-reality-momofuku-dunk