gwern comments on 23andme genome analysis - $99 today only - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 10 January 2011 04:02:10PM *  0 points [-]

Update: sometime in the past 3 or 4 weeks, 23andMe dropped its price to $259.

2011 has just arrived, and we only need one more halving or a sale to match this prediction! 5 years seems likely to have been surprisingly pessimistic.

Comment author: D_Malik 07 January 2013 02:33:31AM 0 points [-]

Yep, down to $99 on 11 December 2012.

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2013 02:38:56AM 0 points [-]

Does that include subscription? I remember that being a serious problem with earlier sales and pricings, it wasn't really $99.

Comment author: Kutta 10 January 2011 04:17:07PM *  0 points [-]

There is a 5 dollar/month subscription fee on top of that, which has to be paid for at least a year after the purchase. That makes the total minimum price 259 dollars (not significantly higher, I concur).

Comment author: gwern 10 January 2011 04:24:27PM 0 points [-]

Oh, true enough. I mistakenly thought that the $200 had dropped the required subscription and was why it was more expensive than the previous $120*+subscription offer. I'll edit my comment...

* Or whatever the sale in the past month or two was