I'm still waiting on this guy... He had a family emergency and has been out of town... I passed up two other i7's with good batch numbers waiting for him already...
And as soon as I sell this phone today I should be getting Dominators for $180 shipped used for only a month and beats waiting on the rebate and I don't really ever use BCB especially with it ending this month IIRC.
For me it was a little difficult because my screen was cracked really badly so that when I was taking it off, it started to crumple and shatter. It wasn't that difficult, just need to be patient
it's kind of standard practice for most manuf. just don't want to you get stuck with some ram in the unlikely event that dies on you. oh and i'm sure you know this already, but be sure to run memtest when you get it.