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>Wojcicki has theories

I have a theory for her. It's too expensive. It was really cheap when I got it (on deep discount) but there are discounts, and then there are discounts. The discounts in the last few years have been very weak.

For the past few years I would have bought it for as many as five family members if only it had gone back to the price I got it for.

And now that the privacy concerns have understandably scared everyone, maybe privacy has overtaken that theory. But the prices are still too high for the value offered.




I saw one of the kits on sale in Rite-Aid the other day, and I looked at it, and it was only like $35 dollars. That's down in the "sure, what the hell, maybe it'd be interesting" range. Then I looked closer, and realized that in the fine print that was just for the testing kit. When you send it in and get it processed, there was an additional $99-150ish lab processing fee, depending on what you picked, to actually get the results back. A little rich for my blood at that price.




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