How to Find and Log In to Your eBay Affiliate Account and Where to Find Your eBay Commissions
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How to Find and Log In to Your eBay Affiliate Account and Where to Find Your eBay Commissions

If at any point in time you signed up to be an eBay affiliate (now called being an eBay “partner”), you may be wondering just exactly how and where to find your eBay commissions reports, to figure out how much commission eBay owes you. The search for where to find your eBay commissions can be frustrating; in fact it’s likely you ended up here for that very reason. We don’t blame you for being frustrated, it’s bad enough that eBay seems to constantly be changing how they deal with regular eBay sellers (who are of course raking in cash for eBay; in 2020 alone eBay had revenue of over $10billion (that’s “billion”, with a B). Here’s where to find that information.

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What is a “Sweep Account” in Etrade and Other Online Financial and Investment Services?

We explain what is that “Sweep Deposit Account / Money Market” or sweep account in your Etrade or other brokerage account.

Here's What ACH Credit SBAD TREAS 310 - MISC PAY NTE*PMT*EIDG in Your Bank Account Means
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Here’s What ACH Credit SBAD TREAS 310 – MISC PAY NTE PMT EIDG or EIDL Means

Here’s what “ACH Credit SBAD TREAS 310 – MISC PAY NTE*PMT*EIDG” or “ACH Credit SBAD TREAS 310 – MISC PAY NTE*PMT*EIDL” in your account means.

How to Cancel Your Account and Unsubscribe from the New York Times Website
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How to Cancel Your Account and Unsubscribe from the New York Times Website

If you fell for the New York Times’ “Create a free account to continue reading” online offer, and now you want to cancel the account, here’s how.

What to Do When Your Phone Number is Associated with Someone Else_s Facebook Account
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What to Do When Your Phone Number is Associated with Someone Else’s Facebook Account

What should you do when your phone number is connected to somebody else’s Facebook account? It happens more often than you might think! Here’s what to do.

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Warrants for Google Account Info on All Mobile Devices in a Given Area Now Being Served on and Responded to by Google

Law enforcement agencies have come up with a new tactic for investigating crimes: location-based warrants, served on Google, demanding that Google disclose Google accounts in use on all mobile devices that were in a given area at a certain time, thus giving detectives and other LEOs a pool of potential suspects and persons of interest who may have committed or have information about whatever crime they are trying to solve.

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How to Remove that Guest User Account from Your Mac or Macbook

If you own a Mac or a Macbook, you may be surprised sometime to see a Guest User account in the list of accounts, or on the initial login screen after you boot up or reboot. Then you may try to remove it, only to be unable to. Here’s what’s likely going on, and how to delete that Guest User account.

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How to Cancel a Stamps.com Account

Don’t you just hate it when an online company – an online company! – offers no way to cancel your account with them, uh..you know… online? Of course, this is because they want you to call them so that they can try to convince you to not cancel your account. This is the case with Stamps.com, who not only doesn’t offer a way to cancel online, but doesn’t even make it easy to find out how to cancel. You might think that you could cancel your Stamps.com account – or at least get information about how to cancel your account – by going into your account settings, or your billing settings, in your Stamps.com account. But you would be wrong. You have to go into their support area, and search for “cancel”, only to be told “you must call us during business hours.” So, we are going to make it just a little bit easier by telling you how to do it here.

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How to Cancel an eFax Account

Having received the “either pay your eFax bill up front for a year or suffer a 30% increase in your monthly rate” notice of eFax increasing their rates, we chose, instead, to cancel our eFax account.

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What to Do When Your Facebook or Other Account has Been Hacked

If your Facebook account has been hacked (or really if any account has been hacked), first of all, don’t take it personally (unless, of course, it was hacked by someone you know, then perhaps take it personally). Also, don’t freak out. What it most likely means is that you used a password that was easy (for a computer) to guess. Here’s what to do when wondering “my Facebook account has been hacked, what should I do?”. Most of these steps are also appropriate if any other of your accounts have been hacked, such as your Twitter account, your Gmail account, your LinkedIn account, or even your bank account.

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Want to Know What Happens to Your Facebook Page when You Die? This

Wonder what happens to your Facebook page (technically your Facebook timeline) if you die? (Well, ok, when you die.) In part it will depend on whether or not you have designated a ‘legacy contact’ in your Facebook account. Want to make sure your account is deleted when you die? We tell you how to do that, too.

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How to Cancel a Free Ancestry.com Account (It Shouldn’t be This Hard!)

If you have a free Ancestry.com account – i.e. a “Registered Guest” Ancestry.com account, and are trying to cancel it (because, for example, they don’t honor your “don’t send me any email” settings), you may find that it seems that you are unable to cancel it. That’s because YOU CAN’T. So we are going to tell you what you need to do.

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GoDaddy Phishing Spam: Status Alert: Your account contains more than 9740 directories

Today, September 3, 2014, a new spoofed GoDaddy phishing spam started showing up in people’s inboxes. “Your account contains too many directories”, it tells you (for example, in our sample the subject is “Status Alert: Your account contains more than 9740 directories”).

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How to Make Sure You’re Not Reading Fake Reviews on Yelp, Expedia, Trip Advisor, and Other Review Sites

Many consumers rely heavily on the reviews of others before making purchase decisions. Whether Amazon, Yelp, Trip Advisor or Expedia, consumer reviews tend to heavily influence all types of purchase decisions, from toasters to vacations.

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How To Cancel a Priceline Account and How to Get Live Chat Support on Priceline.com

Perhaps the only thing more frustrating, with respect to Priceline.com, than trying to figure out how to unsubscribe from Priceline mailings is trying to figure out how to cancel your priceline account. It turns out that your frustration with trying to delete your Priceline account is both understandable, and shared by others. That’s because there is no way to cancel your Priceline account via the website, even if you are logged in to your account. There aren’t even any instructions for how to cancel your Priceline account.