PAS Pretend to be Watching Illicit Sales. Are they?

Re the post "JoJo and the Essex Treasures"

The PAS 'monitoring' was a short-lived extempore pose. It was discontinued soon after it began. When I reported a few weeks ago several apparently undeclared Treasures from eBay to them, they refused point blank to send an official request from the BM to the seller to provide information on title (despite the fact that the monitoring programme still featured as online as though active). I was told by the head of the PAS to contact the seller's local police office myself (from Warsaw, Poland, you understand). Scandalous indolence.

So even recent textbooks (here too) have been led astray.