My sentiment exactly. 2 days ago I put it on my wishlist, reasoning that even if they weren't marketing, the results would still be interesting. What if I get a kit now? Do I manually look up everything in SNPedia or something?
I have an unused kit from the 99$ sale years ago... Crap. Will they still provide all of the data? One could create a 3rd party service to give the same analysis?
I purchased a kit as a gift before November 22nd, but have not given it to the recipient. Will they still receive health results when they send it in?
Yes. Access to health-related results is based on the purchase date of the kit. Any kit purchased before November 22, 2013 and returned to our lab will receive health-related results.
That being said, aren't the kits only good for a year?
I think it's interesting that they are still selling the kits at the $99 price point. They also haven't removed the health tab from their site. I'm guessing what they are doing is buying themselves time to prepare and discuss with the FDA. They might continue to run all the same SNPs on their already-designed chips and just try to justify to the FDA that those SNPs are medically relevant in the ways 23andMe says they are.
I heard about a service called Promethease[1] that will apparently give you some in-depth reporting as well as risk levels for disease. It may be of interest to you.
Unfortunately the differences genetically between different groups, aka ancestry, is less than the differences between individuals in the same group, so the medical part is what is interesting.