I've been simply asking my trusted vendors to deal with me outside of the markets. You can send them an encrypted message through the market's messaging system asking if they'd be cool with that. None have said no so far. (Of course, I've had a successful transaction with them first.) I don't have a problem sending them BC first because I trust them. Soon I'll have no reliance on the markets at all.
Yeah I missed the boat for doing this when sr1 went down :(