Cancel Recurring Payments in PayPal

In PayPal, you can manage all of your active subscriptions, installment billing plan and recurring payments in My Preapproved page.

If you wish to stop recurring payments on your account or end relationship with a merchant, you may do so by cancelling it in My Preapproved page as well.

Cancelling a recurring payment will take effect immediately and you don’t need to wait a certain period of time until it is cancelled completely.

If you noticed that there are unknown charges showing in your bank account or credit card statement and you suspect that the transactions are associated with PayPal, you may follow the steps below to check which active merchants are charging your account automatically.

Cancel Recurring Payment

Step 1: Login to your PayPal account.

Step 2: Go to My Account → Overview → Profile → My Money → My Preapproved payments

Click Update link.

Step 3: In My preapproved payments page, click the Merchant name you wish to cancel recurring payment.

In that page as well, you will know the initial date of your transaction with the merchant and the last amount debited from your account.

Step 4: Click Cancel link beside Active Status. Select ‘Yes’ when you get a prompt.

Example of active subscription

Once you’ve cancelled the recurring payment plan with the merchant, it will be removed automatically from your preapproved payments list.

How to Calculate eBay Seller Fees for Auction Style Listing

In eBay, a seller can post free auction-style listings up to 50 every month. Though insertion fee is waived, sellers are still charge of final value fees which is accumulated and billed every month.

Basically, in an auction-style listing, a seller will be charged final value fee which is based on item sale price (the winning bid) plus the total shipping cost.

eBay’s standard seller fee rate is 10% for auction-style listing regardless of item category (except eBay Motors and Real Estate).

Calculate Final Value Fee

If you are a seller on eBay, you can compute for the item final value fee manually. Thus, you’ll be able to know in advance if you need to adjust the starting price of your item and you’ll be able to secure your profit as well.

The basic formula is (Item Sale Price + Shipping Cost) x .10

For example, I sold a textbook worth $20.00. The domestic shipping cost is $4.00.

Using the formula above:

($20.00 + $4.00) x .10 = $2.40

The final value fee is $2.40.

Tip: If the item you’re selling is located in the United States and you are offering multiple shipping options, for example, one day or international shipping, eBay will calculate the final value fee based on the cheapest shipping cost.

Let’s say for example you are offering free shipping and the buyer chose international shipping which costs $25.00. eBay will not charge a final value fee on shipping for that particular transaction.

If a buyer chooses the $66.95 shipping, final value fee on shipping will be based on $53.45 (the cheapest option).

Additional Discount for Top Rated Sellers

If you are a Top Rated Seller on eBay, you get additional 20% discount on the item sale price. Shipping is excluded.

Using the same example above, the item sale price is $20.00. First you need to calculate the final value fee of the item sale price alone.

$20.00 (Item Sale Price) x 10% (Final value fee) = $2.00

$2.00 (Item final value fee) x 20% (Top Rated Seller discount) = $0.40

$0.40 will be deducted to the total final value fee.

($20.00 + $4.00) x .10 = $2.40 - $0.40 = $2.00

$2.00 is the discounted final value fee.

How to Change Facebook Username

Username is added after https://www.facebook.com/. It is unique to each Facebook account.

Usually, username is used to search people or pages but it also serves as personal email address.

If you have already set your Facebook username, your email address is your username plus @facebook.com. If a friend sent you an email, you will receive it directly in your Inbox.

Change Facebook Username

Username can be changed once after it was set for the first time.

Here’s a short guide on how to do it.

Step 1: Log-in to your Facebook account. Click the gear icon (Settings) at the upper-right hand corner of News Feed.

Step 2: Select Account Settings from the drop-down menu.

Step 3: Click Edit link in Username.

Step 4: Enter your desired username in the box provided. Use any combination of alphanumeric characters. You can add period (.) as well.

Enter your preferred username in the box provided.

Note: If there is no Username box, it means that you have already changed your username before.

There’s a note below the box telling you to include your real name on your username which is not a must. You can use any username you prefer.

Your friends will see your new username or Facebook email address in your timeline.

Remember, your new username will serve as your new Facebook email address. Example: nicolesmith123@facebook.com

The old email username will be replaced as well.

Step 5: Enter your password and click Save Changes button.

Go to your Facebook timeline and verify if username has been successfully changed. If you’re still seeing the old username, try to re-login.

How to Check if an Item in Amazon is Eligible for Global Shipping

In Amazon, you can buy items and have it shipped to other countries outside of the United States. Most countries from different continents are supported.

First, bear in mind, that not all items available in Amazon Global can be shipped to all foreign countries. There are restrictions as well. But, how are you going to check if Amazon can ship an item of your interest to your country?

You can check it by adding the item on your shopping cart. Proceed to checkout and before the payment checkout page, if the item can’t be shipped to your country, you will get the same error below.

And below the item name, you’ll see a warning message like this:

“This item cannot be shipped to the address you selected. (Learn more.) You may either change the shipping address or remove the item by clicking Delete.’’

Alternatively, you can check it as well from your shopping cart. Before you proceed to checkout, click ‘Estimate your shipping and tax’ link below Subtotal.

You’ll get the same error above if the item is not eligible for shipping in your country.

Change Reminder Sound in Outlook 2013

In Outlook 2013, reminder sound will play automatically when you received a new incoming email, you have a scheduled task, or you have an upcoming appointment. This feature is enabled by default when you initially installed Outlook on your computer.

Outlook 2013 uses the very common ‘reminder.wav’ as the default notification sound. It is the same reminder sound in Outlook 2010.

Currently, there are no other reminders sounds to choose from but you can change it anytime you want.

Perhaps, you want to use a long music file or a short portion of your favorite music.

Here’s a short guide on how to change the default notification sound in Outlook 2013.

Change Reminder Sound

Step 1: Launch Outlook 2013. Go to File → Options.

Step 2: In Outlook Options window, go to Advanced tab.

Step 3: Click Browse button in Play reminder sound. Locate the music file that you want to use and click OK.

Reminders settings – Outlook 2013

.WAV is the only supported file format. If the music file is in MP3, AAC or whatever format, you can convert it first online for free. You can google free online music converter, for example, MP3 to WAV.

Step 4: Create an appointment and confirm if the new reminder sound is working. If you want to switch it back to original, follow the steps provided above and locate the REMINDER.wav file in this path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15 or C:\Windows\Media

Change the drive letter if you installed Office to another hard drive or partition.