BMR has too many Captchas, so its harder for vendors to reply to mass amounts of messages. AFAIK BMR has no way to see if messages have been read.. This was a cool feature of SR.. I think its a security issue with BMR's forums always showing offline/online without any way of turning it off.. BMR lists their products by default in alphabetic order instead of by popularity (like SR did/should do). This has lead to vendors having a title starting with the special characters to get to the start of the list.. is ( ' 1g of my product. I could go on