Baby Gender Mentor, the at-home DNA test claiming to reveal an unborn
baby's gender as early as 5 weeks of pregnancy, convinced many
customers that their claims of near-perfect accuracy were real by
offering a 200% money back guarantee if your result was
incorrect. "How can I go wrong?" many mothers asked.
The test's maker, Acu-Gen BioLabs, has now retracted the offer of a
double-money-back guarantee, and a 100% guarantee is now offered
instead on the BabyGenderMentor.com and PregnancyStore.com Web
sites. PregnancyStore, the online retailer for the gender test,
indicates that Baby Gender Mentor is currently "out of stock".
(Perhaps until new orange boxes can be printed without the 200%
warranty.)
The 200% money back guarantee is wonderful! The offer put that much more confidence in my decision to order your product!
Testimonial on PregnancyStore.com
While a money-back refund is usually a mark of a legitimate product,
in a gender prediction or gender selection product it's highly suspect
-- because the seller is assured of getting at least half the results
correct.
While Acu-Gen formerly "stood behind" a 200% guarantee of the Baby
Gender Mentor's accuracy, customer complaints about wrong test results,
and the company's refusal to make good on the promised refund, have
caused the Better Business Bureau to give Acu-Gen BioLabs an unsatisfactory rating.
Acu-Gen Biolab, Inc. has a pattern of complaints
concerning advertising issues. Consumers state that the company
promises a 99.9% accurate test result for the gender of their unborn
child or a 200% guaranteed refund. Consumers state that the test result
is often inaccurate. Consumers state that when they contact the company
for a 200% refund... the company still does not provide the consumer
with the guaranteed refund.
On 03/13/06 the Better Business Bureau wrote to Acu-Gen Biolab, Inc.
and asked them to substantiate the following claims made on the
company's website: We Guarantee that all test results will be
absolutely 99.9% accurate, explanation of the company's 200% guarantee,
Unsurpassed Accuracy, Unrivaled Earliness, Uncompromised Promptness,
Undoubted Privacy and Totally Safe. As of 03/28/06 the company has not
responded to the Better Business Bureau's request for substantiation or
modification of the questioned advertising claims.
Update: The BabyGenderMentor.com Web site has also stopped selling Baby Gender Mentor.
About Maureen
Click to play the Fountains of Wayne song about Maureen!
"Maureen, you're givin' me too much information!"
My Kiddies
My DH
(And never had a fight!)
About Me
In 1999, my two sons were 4 and 2 years old, and we were ready to have another baby. I hoped to have a daughter, and I turned to the Internet to search for ways of increasing the odds of conceiving a girl. I discovered the iVillage Gender Determination Board. On the board, I found information about at-home and high-tech sex selection methods, but more importantly, I discovered I wasn't alone. I was one among a legion of mothers who longed desperately for a daughter, keeping it a secret so others wouldn't think, wrongly, that we loved our sons less, and feeling guilty becuse we're not supposed to care if a baby's a boy or a girl, "as long as it's healthy". There were, of course, also mothers hoping just as much to add a son to their all-girl family.
After a lot of research and soul-searching, my husband I decided to try MicroSort. In the fall of 2000, I became pregnant on our first MicroSort attempt, by IUI. At 20 weeks of pregnancy, we discovered we were having twins, a boy and a girl! We were thrilled to have a daughter at last, and a new son to cherish too.
During my journey to conceive a daughter, I was so grateful for the support and information volunteered by others on the boards; mothers who didn't even know me, but were willing to help me, hope for me, and cry along with me, when there was no one I could turn to "in real life". I know that without being able to talk personally with women who had tried MicroSort, I would have never gone through with this daunting, complex procedure; and that we would have never had a daughter as part of our family.
Now that my journey's finished, this Web site is just my way of giving some of that help back, to you.