Salient Bioscience Reviews 8

TrustScore 3 out of 5

3.2

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  1. Biotechnology Company

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Salient Bio is an innovative, fast-growing biotech start-up combining synthetic biology and robotics to build high throughput, digital-first laboratories that make diagnostic testing available to all.


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3.2

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TrustScore 3 out of 5

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appalling after sales support

Appalling after sales support. Royal Mail Tracking showed as delivered for one of our tests so as far as I’m concerned it was delivered - not this weak excuse of “ Royal Mail service seems to be stretched at this time” as a cop out for not refunding a test that we sent and never got the results for. I’m sorry but my contract is with you and not Royal Mail. If the tracking states delivered as far as I’m concerned it is, so a refund should be issued if it’s lost - does every consumer in the UK ring Royal Mail when something is lost from them and say “oh I hear your stretched, where is my parcel” I don’t think so !
From what I can see on here it’s very hit and miss so be very cautious and if you really want their advertised results of 24hrs. Send your test next day before 9am or you simply won’t get it on time if you don’t. Very poor overall and had their Director acknowledged my dissatisfaction for this issue and refund the test then I might have rated differently but it’s obvious from them they prefer to expect me to accept Royal Mail were at fault and basically deal with it.

August 16, 2022
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent Customer Service

Great experience. Good value compared to others and tests all delivered in time. I put the shortened version of my name down on the form by accident, so certificate came back on with that name which doesn't match my passport. I contacted customer service via their website and had a reply within 5 minutes with a new version of the certificate!

February 19, 2022
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Don't buy. False adveritising

We paid for a day 2, day 5 and day 8 test to release. It was over £200 an extremely exesive amount of money but we bought it because it said 24 hour turn around and that if they receive it before 1pm you get same day results. Extremely disappointed. Don't buy. Did not get results in this time and still waiting. Emailed company, no reply. They manage to take the fee very quickly though. Might as well get a normal test because it would take the same time minus the 200 cost! Feeling robbed. False advertising. They also conveniently don't have a phone number to call.

December 12, 2021
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Reply from Salient Bioscience

Hi Jo, thank you for flagging this with us, and I'm sorry that you are disappointed with our service. I've just looked into this, and I believe one of our agents responded to you to help you out.

We appreciate that it is very frustrating not to have your results back quickly. From what I can see, your sample was received by our lab at 3pm on the 13th of December. You then received your results from us that evening. I'm sorry if this was later than what you expected, but this was within our 24-hour promised turnaround time (and same-day for results received before 1pm - so we actually beat our promise!)

Please feel free to get in contact with us at contact@salient.bio and I will personally make sure we respond to you to help with any further queries you have.

Thank you!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

48 hours later no results

It's been 48hours since I registered my test and sent it with Royal mail, envelope they provided. I've queried my test but 48 hours later they just don't respond and no test results.
They guarantee 24 hours but I find this to be false

December 5, 2021
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Reply from Salient Bioscience

Hi Vera - thank you for this review. I'm sorry you were disappointed with the level of service you received from us. Let me respond to your comment point by point.

1) We responded to your first query within 90 minutes. Apologies if this was not quick enough for you - we are experiencing an unprecedented volume of emails and are working hard to respond to everyone within 24 hours. From what I can see, we responded to all of your emails within 2 hours, far exceeding our 24-hour SLA.

2) I've looked into the delay for you, and from what I can see, you posted your sample to us on Friday the 3rd of December. It arrived at our lab the following week - on the 7th - after 1pm. You received your results that evening, within our promised 24-hour turnaround time for samples.

I appreciate that you were frustrated that your results were delayed. Unfortunately, Royal Mail has been experiencing some massive delays due to the pre-Christmas rush. Please get in touch if you have any more concerns about our service so I can help address these. Thank you!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Amazing!

I’ve bought a covid test (pcr day 2) to make sure I could go to work before as possible after the new travel restrictions.

I was hoping to get the result as soon as possible and I must say they have been very fast!

I took my test at 14:00 on the 2nd December, I’ve sent it to them with the Royal Mail return label provided and I got my result on the 3rd at 16:30.

Thank you!

December 3, 2021
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Reply from Salient Bioscience

Thank you for your kind review. We are always delighted to help!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Highly efficient same day results.

Salient Bio - Truly excellent ‘no fuss’ company with both day 2 and day 5 results complete and communicated by 3:30pm same day with 9am arrival. (Big caution - it took Royal Mail ‘Tracked 24’ 5 days to deliver the day 5 release sample. Don’t use them.)

September 1, 2021
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Reply from Salient Bioscience

Thanks for your review Henry! Always happy to be of service!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service

This company is great. A lot of these testing companies send you the results the next day but Salient sends it the same day as long as you drop it off before 1 pm. Would highly recommend them!

August 27, 2021
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Reply from Salient Bioscience

Thank you Connor! We pride ourselves in hitting our promised turnaround times 100% of the time, and are always happy when you are happy!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Best I have used for PCR tests

I work abroad so have had the pleasure of several day 2 and day 8 PCR tests through different companies. This Salient is the best I have used to date with a very quick turn around once they receive the test.

July 13, 2021
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Reply from Salient Bioscience

Thank you Ms Williams!

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