Right up front, this is not a review about the accuracy, since I have returned the test. This is my overall experience with the company and what caused me to loose faith in the company/this process and return the test.First, the good part is that I really liked the snap collector. I have done lancets quite a few times for other at-home health tests and they’re very painful, I often can’t get enough blood, and my fingers are sore for days. The snap was difficult to press down, but otherwise I was shocked by how painless it was for me and how easy it was to collect the blood. Using the early DNA test as a way to detect gender was recommended by someone who has had accurate results with it. I was initially skeptical but after doing a cursory reading of a few articles, l decided to try one of the recommended ones and chose Sneakpeek.Problem 1 is that their mobile website is messed up. I tried to place the order multiple times, tried using the coupon you get when you first get to the page, etc. and it kept inexplicably failing or not having a place to enter a coupon. The same thing happened when I tried to fill out the return form. I think the error for both was that there was no captcha and so it would fail. When I went to a desktop, a captcha was shown that was not shown on mobile and I was able to order the test and later return it. When I went to return the test, I couldn’t use my address because it didn’t show “in the list” (an address auto fill) and so I selected a random address just so the form would go through.The reason I decided to return the test is because the more reviews and articles I read about this brand and this type of testing in general, the more that I knew there was no way I’d trust the results and so I might as well try to get my money back. There’s no way I’m going to send them a copy of my child’s birth certificate later if the result was wrong so an early refund it is. If most/all of the wrong results were that the test said a boy, when it was a girl, then I would’ve chalked it up to user error. But I was shocked at how many reviews had the opposite result as well. When I submitted the return, they replied with the shipping label and said something to the effect of, “Thousands of people use our product and the reviews only reflect a small portion of our customers.” But if you’re claiming 99% accuracy the wrong results should be significantly fewer or all skewed to clear user error. Other things that seemed weird about the company were small, but piled up. First, the “biohazard” bag that the sample goes in is just a little ziploc with a sticker. I’ve done quite a few at-home blood tests and they ALWAYS have a biohazard bag that is printed with the biohazard label and that seals completely when you close it. The address that the sample is returned to (and that the return is also returned to) doesn’t seem like an actual lab. I’m guessing they have their own “in house” lab but it still seems weird to me. When I’ve done blood tests in the past, the sample gets returned to a lab, not the company that I purchased the test from. When I looked up the address on Google maps, I couldn’t find the building it goes to. Other little things about their website seemed weird to me and made me think several times during the ordering process, “What if this is just a scam?” Ultimately, I knew I was going to doubt any result that I got and that I wouldn’t even want to tell people the result since I’d have no way of knowing if it was accurate. I dumped out my blood sample, cleaned the components of the kit to the best of my ability and sent it back. Remains to be seen if the refund makes it way to me or not.
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