Help Desk

All new credit cards added to our system are validated with a $1 authorization before the order is processed.

This is not an actual charge but used to confirm that the credit card is valid, and the $1 authorization is automatically dropped after a few days by your credit card provider.

You can read more about this common practice in an article by the New York Times:

http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/03/why-you-can-ignore-those-odd-1-credit-card-charges