How do I cancel my Yahoo Personals account?This may seem naive, but - a friend of mine cut off her yahoo personals some months before meeting a significant other. She continued to recive Yahoo personals alert on her email, even after she was no longer a member, she was still appearing on their site (sans picture) even though inactive and told that she would be removed after 3 months. She managed to finally get herself removed but continued to receive alerts for replies to her profile. WHAT GIVES WITH THOSE GUYS - How do you escape their clutches?? Fairly straightforward answer: according to the Yahoo Personals help site, you need to do the following: If you would like to delete your Yahoo! Personals profile, please visit: You may need to sign in using your Yahoo! ID and password. When you get there, you'll need to click on Edit Profile then Delete your profile on the upper right hand side of the page. You should be able to get the same functionality by clicking on this link: Delete your Yahoo Personals profile. Here's where I think your friend might have gotten tripped up, though: "If you have a profile posted, deleting your profile will not cancel your subscription. If you would like to cancel your subscription, please click on the "Billing Info" link located on the home page." Your friend should also change their privacy settings on their Personals account, if they can, to make sure their profile isn't searchable:  See the option I chose here? You'd want to, um, I mean your "friend" would want to choose the same. Good luck!
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. I am trying to cancel my Yahoo Personals membership. I have followed the instructions and the cancel link does not appear where they said it would. I have 24 hours left before I am charged again. What else can I do? sample {this is what i get when I click on the billing link!)
Here's a list of your current services. Click on a service to view more details or make changes to the service. Service Status Next Payment Payment Method how to cancel sample Posted by: debbie at August 20, 2006 8:50 PMHELP....I've been trying to cancel my membership on PERSONALS.....but it keeps me in a "loop"....no help.....no action. What do I do? Posted by: Larry at February 9, 2007 1:20 PMI just spent an hour figuring this out so I'd like to share how I was able to finally find the cancellation method. It is actually pretty strait forward, though not obvious. Step 1. Log into your personals account. Step 2. Look above your personal photo and you will see something that says: "My Personals Status in the dark header bar. Look to the right of that and you'll see a link called: "Billing Info". Press that link and you'll be asked for your password again. Step 3. To the right of the page you'll see two links. One says "Manage Services" and the one above that says: "View Service Details". Select manage Services." Now your off to the races.
THANKYOU!!!! IT took me hours and hours of pure frustration and misleading "yahoo personals" instructions to finally get rid of the personals Auto-Renew feature!!! Did it tho! Happy camper now! Posted by: will at February 26, 2007 5:17 PMPer pass comemt,I was informed that my personals account would be cancel this Aug. Will this happend as schduel. Posted by: stanley burns at July 14, 2007 8:05 PMi would like to terminate my yahoo account Posted by: janita joseph at September 5, 2007 5:05 PMI am trying to cancel Yahoo as my home page. How do I do that? Posted by: Nancy Bordner at October 29, 2007 10:13 AMI DEFINATELY WANT TO CANCEL MY PERSONALS SUBSCRIPTION I WAS ONLY ABLE TO PAY $13.99 PER MONTH AND THIS IS WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS DOING OR THIS IS THE WAY THAT YAHOO MADE IT SEEM. PLEASE! Itried to get yahoo personals to give me an address so i could send you my picture so i could join. I was told you do not do this. Please then, take me off your list, as i will not be joining your service. I don't know how to get a picture to you so i won't be joining. I have been trying to cancel my Yahoo personal account. But when I try to sign in it tells me that my user name and password are not valid. What do I do Now. My profile is still on the list and Yahoo has cancelled my email account. Posted by: Deborah at January 5, 2008 1:55 PMi am tring to canel my account but i can't cancel it i don't want the account no more please cancel it by tomarrow. Posted by: victor badilo at February 12, 2008 4:44 PMI want to canel my account with yahoo personnal Posted by: richardhowell2 at February 20, 2008 8:54 PMI can't login! And I want my Yahoo Personals account CANCELLED, PLEASE! Posted by: Mindy at March 6, 2008 4:28 AMI would like to delete my present yahoo email, I would like to cancel my account with yahoo personals, because I have found some one. Thank you for your services. Posted by: Sidney W. Horn at May 13, 2008 10:11 AMhello yAHOO PERSONALS IAM RON LAST MONTH I HAD A BELOW KNEE AMPT , IAM NOT WORKING AND HAFTING TO CLOSE MY ACCT , DUE TO NO MONEY IN MY ACCT. BEING IAM UNDER DR CARE RIGHT NOW, I DONT KNOW WHEN I WILL BE ABLE TO GO BACK TO WORK. SO I WILL NEED MY PERSONALS ACCT TO CLOSE Posted by: Ron Finley at June 1, 2008 7:20 PMI want my yahoo personal closed I dont use it and it has not been helpful except for having people try to scam me on there so PLEASE close this account I cannot afford this no longer Posted by: karen waddle at June 2, 2008 8:34 AMPlease cancel my yahoo personal account now!!!!... and notfly me asap went this is done .. darwin reinhardt 6/21/2008 Posted by: darwin reinhardt at June 21, 2008 9:22 AMi want to close my yahoo personal account-old_skol42@yahoo.com Posted by: sarah morgan at July 27, 2008 2:01 PMPlease cancel my yahoo personals account TODAY! And work on making this a whole lot easier!!! Posted by: Zola Da Virro at July 28, 2008 8:16 PMPLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!cancel my account I been trying and trying for so long and you guys give the wrong steps to cancel. I need to cancel now Posted by: sarahi at August 3, 2008 6:53 PMi would like to cancal my personal account and i would like you to stop taking money out of my banck account i tred once but you won,t listen so stop it mona Posted by: mona at September 24, 2008 6:58 AMI want to cancel my phone sign out. When I sign into my yahoo messenger I can send IMs but the responses are going to my phone. I get the responses after I sign back out into the sign into your phone. All responses come through at one time into my phone. I use to have another account that I used the same cell number but cancelled that account. still have the problem. Posted by: Nikki at September 28, 2008 10:36 PMI finished my profile and submitted it for the personals but a few minutes later changed my mind and deleted it, but the message says I'm still active unless I go to Billing, but I can't find Billing. Will Yahoo start charging me now? Posted by: Mark at September 29, 2008 4:05 PMi want 2 delete my mobile device of ym...tnx. Posted by: leah at October 4, 2008 11:15 AMi have a account which i want to cancel i dont want any more id Posted by: Tanishka Dhankhar at October 9, 2008 11:16 AMmy account dos not have a edit profile buton nor a delet your profile button. What shall i do? how do I take my name off my yahoo profile I TAKE IT YOU ARE THE YAHOO TEAM?I HAD AN EMAIL FROM YOU?SAYING YOU WILL DELETE MY EMAIL UNLESS YOU TELL ME DIFFERENT?I WAS ASKED TO GIVE YOU MY EMAIL NO.AND PASSWORD.WAS THIS REALY YOU OR IS IT A SCAM? i would like to keep my yahoo personals but i don't have enough money until my social security kicks in on dec 16 and then i can pay for the use Posted by: john thomas at October 16, 2008 2:23 AMHow i change my security question in yahoo ID? Posted by: Dharmendra Kumar at October 16, 2008 6:05 AMi want to cancel yahoo massengeraccount I wish to cancel the yahoo/personals account.The current blocker on my system does not allow access to my account and therefore cannot cancel as stated in your very complicated instructions.Please remove this profile and account.Thank You in advance,Patrick H. Dooley Posted by: patrick h dooley at December 3, 2008 7:30 PMi want my yahoo,personal acct closeed and don't know how to do it and want to have the rest but back on my credit i only signed for 1 month but seen that i was chareged for 3 months ,how doi go about doing thisplease help,carol Posted by: mark at December 10, 2008 4:59 PMcan you please check my e-mail i cant get my mail from my computer, i only can check it on my friends computer, please check this for me thank you. Posted by: frances collazo at December 17, 2008 10:26 AMThanks for your information, i spend a lots of hours trying to delete my profile. Posted by: Ivelisse at December 19, 2008 6:26 PMI want this account closed. I have tried and tried and nothing. I want this account closed. NOW Posted by: john at December 27, 2008 12:04 PMI would like for my yahoo account and yahoo messenger to be cancel please... Posted by: bertholiny at December 28, 2008 12:35 PMI made an mistake an deleted my emails, How or where do i find them? Posted by: Renita C. Lewis at December 28, 2008 4:02 PMi subscribed to yahoo personals but i cannot view any photos Posted by: sue at January 4, 2009 7:10 AMhi dave i have tryed to open my tagged account but it keeps saying account has been cancelled but i never cancelled it can you help please. Posted by: neil at January 20, 2009 6:02 AMhelp! i want to cancel my yahoo account. i dont remember all the information i typed in for my yahoo account 2 years ago.what can i do. i cant read my mail on yahoo due to i cant remember all the information. Posted by: sondi spence at January 31, 2009 7:33 AMhello I'm trying to canael my emamail acount to open a new one can you help I don't know how to do this thank you. Posted by: aaron vaglica at February 2, 2009 9:50 AMhey i have been trying to find an easier way to delete my account but i only found one that wouldnt take any of my information. Posted by: chelsie at February 4, 2009 11:29 AMI WANT TO RENEW MY OLD YAHOO ID Posted by: AZEEM at February 8, 2009 8:54 AMPls i don't ve any comment rather 2 check my email. Posted by: Emmenons at February 26, 2009 6:57 PMplease can you tell me how to edit my name from my yahoo account I want to keep everything as it is but I have changed my name I noticed that my "From" is missing when I compose email....Where is it?? Posted by: tim at March 9, 2009 7:14 AMFed up with Yahoo Messenger popping up at the most inconvenient times. Never use it anyway. Want to obliterate into the cosmos, HOW!!!!!!? Posted by: Mike Savage at April 14, 2009 12:29 PM
from Personals, and have had NO SUCCESS!!! I NO LONGER WANT TO BE "ADVERTISED"....and WOULD LIKE IT REMOVED IMMEDIATELY!!!! Posted by: eleanor cordeiro at May 21, 2009 6:39 AMI keep getting a reminder from Yahoo asking me for account information. It says Yahoo is changing the way you can recover your account in case you forget your password. Is this genuine or a scam? It wants my email address and in return Yahoo will send password reset and account emails. There are also two security questions to be completed. Is this a scam or is it really from Yahoo. Why does Yahoo not advertise this somewhere else and widely so that everyone will know it is genuine and not a scam. Please help me. I am very afraid to fill in this form. Thanks. desmondcr@yahoo.com Posted by: Desmond McReynolds at June 7, 2009 12:29 PMi forget my password and when i fill befor yahoo data Posted by: manju sapkota at June 9, 2009 6:20 AMare answers supplied with previous questions? if so ,how do u get them? also ---i rely on email from yahoo pers. to acess my pers mail box ,profile etc but i deleted a bunch to in- clude most recent and now i cannot review any ting until my next update which probably will be tomorrow. in the future how do i pull up my acct? please cancel my account, i'm trying but not getting anywhere. Posted by: linda graham at July 7, 2009 6:56 PMDear Sir I would like To See My Email Account In yahoo,That I Want use In arabic Language. thanking You, Posted by: Abdalla Krem at July 15, 2009 4:58 AMI want to cancel my Yahoo E mail account but it won't let me. It keeps saying I have entered a non valid password. I cancelled my yahoo personals on 8-12-09 and they billed me on 8-13-09 Posted by: daniel combs at August 14, 2009 8:42 AMI downloaded a game and now I have 3 more yahoo games.com and they won't delete. I have never had this problem before Posted by: Sandra Jansen at August 29, 2009 7:38 PMbecause i got many yahoo ID and get into my email so i need to close all my email and then reopen a new one Posted by: liew meichin at September 24, 2009 9:17 PMi wanna cancel my yahoo account Posted by: johane at October 13, 2009 11:04 AMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
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