When you submit your order on SteelSeries.com, we will request that your financial institution create a pre-authorization hold on your account. A pre-authorization means that we have not actually charged your account. As such, you are not responsible to pay anything or incur any interest, yet. Only once we successfully ship your order will we collect payment from your credit card. In the event that your order is cancelled for any reason, prior to shipment, pre-authorization holds naturally expire within 15-30 days depending on your financial institution