It was an optional charge to test it to "lower the chance of receiving DOA memory". It's a good thing if they actually do it. Some memory comes out of the factory bad. I just really didn't want to go through a whole RMA thing. I hate returning things. I'll usually just trash something and buy another rather than go through the trouble of returning it. Companies take my money within minutes of me buying something but it will take them weeks or months to give it back if they sold me something broken.