There's only one way that you'll find out about VMAR. YOU be the judge.
Regardless of all the bashing,only YOU can tell.
I've had the 540 Edge for four years and many flights and I'll say that it's a nice plane and tuff.Flies very well.It's not like you loosing an arm and leg in the pricing.It's not perfect (no ARF is),but nice for the price. If you don't like it,you've got $169 worth of pretty. Look at the new version 300L.Can't get much prettier than that,bar none.
I also had the New Arrow Tiger.A real looker.Looks a lot better up front than the pix on the site.It crashed,but not the planes fault. It did want to stall on landing,but fixed that before it's demise.

Try it,you mite like it
Just my 2 cents