I'm a longtime fan of Paypal, actually, and have been involved with the company as a customer since before they bought X.com and were about a dozen very hard working employees in a tiny upstairs office on University Avenue. But that's another story!

My use of Paypal runs the gamut too, from buying to selling, sending payment invoices to running credit cards directly through my Paypal Here gizmo hooked up to my iPhone. As part of that, I've both set up others with recurring payment subscriptions and set up payments of my own on a subscription basis.

In fact, my dad blog GoFatherhood! is hosted with Hostgator and I recently hit a similar problem with a subscription: I'd somehow ended up with two so I was double-paying my bills. Not good. But it did give me a great excuse to go through the steps needed to cancel a Paypal subscription payment.

The trick, I learned, was to find the errant transaction on your transaction history. That makes it all a ton easier. On mine, for example, I found this on the Recent Transaction Log:

Yup, that's the subscription I needed to cancel, $59.70 twice a year is not as good a deal when you're inadvertently paying it four times a year!

To find and cancel the subscription click on "Details". Lots more detail shows up, including the vital confirmation that it is indeed a recurring payment:

Scroll down to the bottom of this same page and you'll see where you can change which of your addresses is associated with this subscription. Helpful to remember. But what we want is to cancel the subscription entirely...

You can see that there are three buttons. We want "Cancel Subscription", so click on it.

You sure?

Why yes, you are. Click on "Cancel Subscription" a second time and you're done:

So that's how you cancel a Paypal subscription as a subscriber. As far as I have been able to ascertain, there's no way for the recipient to cancel a subscription, so it's up to you to ensure that each and every one of your subscriptions is correct, accurate, and on the schedule you expect.

Hope that's helpful!