Thanks to all for your responses to my opening post.  I certainly don't feel like I'm an island out there.

As we all know this is a Discussion Forum, but we also know that eBay moderators check every post that is made here (otherwise there wouldn't be any mod. edits/deletes), so hopefully one of these moderators will pass this thread onto the ostriches - who will with a heap of luck, collectively decide that the TRS / PBS has not provided sellers with what they were led to believe was a 'given' - so why persist with it any longer.

No-one wants it, and most can't/won't comply with it.