No, the 14 day payment delay is not still in play. That was from an earlier beta of the mod.

Marketplace transactions completed via the payment processing embedded in Panjo transfer the funds instantaneously. Panjo uses PayPal for payment processing. Panjo walks buyers and sellers through all the necessary steps and data collection to maximize buyer and seller protections.

Panjo updates:
1) Panjo released a new marketplace home page design
2) Panjo released a new 'list view' mode in the marketplace home page
3) Panjo reduced the marketplace load time by 45%
4) Panjo started powering the 'location' field with Google maps API. This will enable a forthcoming 'search by location' option.

Learn more about Panjo updates on the Panjo blog

Have i read this right that panjo askes the seller for a 5% donation 30 days after the item has sold

and when a user on my forums posts up a add instead of it posting a pound sign it puts 3:.&34 or something like that lol

Panjo does not ask the seller for a 5% donation 30 days after the item sells. That is bad information. I believe you are referring to the fact that as a forum owner, you can use Panjo to set a transaction fee that you wish to collect on a usergroup-by-usergroup basis. Example: You have two usergroups, A & B. You want usergroup A to use the marketplace fee free. You want usergroup B to pay a 1% transaction fee for successful sales. When a seller from usergroup B sells an item for $100, the payment processing system collects $1 from the seller and transfers it to you, the forum owner. That fee is optional and set by you, the forum owner.

It sounds like you installed and trailed the plugin? If you can point us to the # sign bug, we would be happy to have a look. We are not aware of any special character display/rendering issues at this time. This would be an unknown bug.

Give us a call if you have any questions: 1 (424) 272-0291

Panjo announces 7 new features...
1) Buyers can now set how many listings they want to see at a time.
2) Buyers can now limit search results to a radius from a location.
3) Buyers can now set a min and max price range on search results.
4) Buyers can now limit search results by age.
5) Each listing now has a view counter.
6) Sellers can now more easily opt into and out of PayPal payment processing services.
7) Sellers now have more controls over the display and distribution of their listings, especially on mobile devices.

Can this be used as an Ebay network affiliate store?

Short answer yes. Longer answer, if that is your primary goal, you may want to look at other options. The mod is not optimized for that purpose. Give us a call if you have any questions related to that: 1 (424) 272-0291

Once again, lots of major updates to the Panjo classifieds plugin for vBulletin. Get all the details on the Panjo marketplace blog.

not displaying in my Postbit please advise how to fix

Update: Yes, there is now an option to use the Panjo classifieds plugin for vBulletin to run an ebay network affiliate store.