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I've never seen them push that as a marketing angle. As a 23andMe customer from a couple years ago, it never even occured to me to try re-running the results.

ianferrel 7y ago
I expect that this is a difficult thing to market, since most people probably don't realize that the thing they did wasn't a "complete" sequence. "Remember the thing we sold you before? Well, it wasn't that great. But now it is. Give us more money?"
- kshacker 7y ago
  In bay area, we call it version 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 2019, 2020. Who does not want DNA 2020? I do. [NOT in this case]
  - jfengel 7y ago
    In Seattle, they call it version 2.0, 10, 2029, Lemur, and Q.
cstejerean 7y ago
They do, it depends how far back you signed up I guess. I did this many years ago, around the time they first launched and I got constant reminders that this or that new information is not available for me unless I upgrade to their latest chip. I think once I was able to upgrade by having them rerun the first sample I submitted, but at this point I think I’d have to send a new sample in if I remember the message correctly. But that seems like too much hassle so I haven’t done it.
- war1025 7y ago
  Honestly the most interesting thing in the whole result to me was the "Number of Neanderthal markers" thing. All in all, probably not hugely worth the expense. But I guess the novelty of it was fun.
  - ryanmercer 7y ago
    >All in all, probably not hugely worth the expense. But I guess the novelty of it was fun. Yeah, for me it was half novelty and half trying to figure out more about my father's side of the family. My father died just before I turned 13, when his father died about a decade ago I asked my great uncle what he knew about the family... he didn't even know his mother's maiden name which I only discovered at the end of last year, several years after my great uncle also died. I can trace part of my mother's side back with confidence to at least the 17th century, my father's family had gone cold in the early 1900s until I discovered my grandmother's maiden name. Novelty is also why I want my whole genome done. Once it's down to a few hundred dollars I want to have it done and ultimately have it printed and put in binders, purely for the novelty.
drakonka 7y ago
I recently got an email or other notification of some sort offering a discount to get retested with their new V4 chip, as apparently my tests were run on V3.

ianferrel 7y ago

I expect that this is a difficult thing to market, since most people probably don't realize that the thing they did wasn't a "complete" sequence. "Remember the thing we sold you before? Well, it wasn't that great. But now it is. Give us more money?"

kshacker 7y ago
In bay area, we call it version 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 2019, 2020. Who does not want DNA 2020? I do. [NOT in this case]
- jfengel 7y ago
  In Seattle, they call it version 2.0, 10, 2029, Lemur, and Q.

cstejerean 7y ago

They do, it depends how far back you signed up I guess. I did this many years ago, around the time they first launched and I got constant reminders that this or that new information is not available for me unless I upgrade to their latest chip. I think once I was able to upgrade by having them rerun the first sample I submitted, but at this point I think I’d have to send a new sample in if I remember the message correctly. But that seems like too much hassle so I haven’t done it.

war1025 7y ago
Honestly the most interesting thing in the whole result to me was the "Number of Neanderthal markers" thing. All in all, probably not hugely worth the expense. But I guess the novelty of it was fun.
- ryanmercer 7y ago
  >All in all, probably not hugely worth the expense. But I guess the novelty of it was fun. Yeah, for me it was half novelty and half trying to figure out more about my father's side of the family. My father died just before I turned 13, when his father died about a decade ago I asked my great uncle what he knew about the family... he didn't even know his mother's maiden name which I only discovered at the end of last year, several years after my great uncle also died. I can trace part of my mother's side back with confidence to at least the 17th century, my father's family had gone cold in the early 1900s until I discovered my grandmother's maiden name. Novelty is also why I want my whole genome done. Once it's down to a few hundred dollars I want to have it done and ultimately have it printed and put in binders, purely for the novelty.

drakonka 7y ago

I recently got an email or other notification of some sort offering a discount to get retested with their new V4 chip, as apparently my tests were run on V3.