STAY AWAY FROM BETHLEHEM LIGHT trees!
923747
After two years lights stopped working. This is supposed to be a five year guarantee! Checked every fuse, all good. emailed them a month before Christmas 2004 with the problem lights, they returned my email in Late January 2014. I had to re-string the tree with lights and it is no longer the convenient set and plug in tree it was meant to be. I would not waste hundreds of dollars on this tree and the company does NOT stand behind their product unless it comes out of your pocket. Stay Away from Bethlehem lights and check the BBB for their poor customer service.
2327187
Nothing like pictured. It will not sit on my tree at all. We want our money back. This is seriously a piece of crap meant for the outdoors. I don't even want to give it one star.
874417
VERY DANGEROUS!!! I am a  high school Visual Arts / Yearbook teacher and I made this purchase from our school's yearbook account. When we set the lights up for the first time (3 days ago) , one of the bulbs blew out and the classroom smelled like fire. As we all tried to carefully take out the bulb, we heard a loud clicking noise. The other light bulbs were going out as well. Now with a classroom full of students, smoke in the air, photo shoots for superlative closely arriving, a school full of students scheduled for photo shoots, and the return date expiring, we are now pretty much screwed. We fund-raised to purchase this set, but we do not have anymore money to purchase another one. Please MAKE THIS RIGHT!
4758452
Bought a 2-pack and one of these killed a Christmas tree on the first night.  ALL of the lights dead on the tree.  (Yes, I plugged the lights in without the timer. Dead like Fred.)  No idea how something like that can happen but I'd only recommend this product to an enemy.
295294
I purchased a red Balsam Hill-branded version of this bag with a rolling stand (a.k.a. the PRO model) in December 2014 for $99.00 on sale and with free shipping for my 6.5 foot Vermont White Spruce (55 girth) artificial Christmas tree by the aforementioned manufacturer. This storage bag solution is supposed to be an easy-on, easy-off experience for artificial Christmas trees up to 9 feet tall having a girth of up to 60 inches.

Well, nothing could be further from the truth. The videos on the Treekeeperbag website are clearly delusional; the ease with which two individuals handily and expeditiously are able to get an apparently large Christmas tree to fit inside one of these contraptions cannot be duplicated in reality. The dimensions of the bag being used in the website video also appear to be much larger than those of the bag that I received (or the tree is of significantly smaller girth). This is possibly intentional to seduce/fool unwary consumers to purchase this item without hesitation.

In my case, the circumference of the storage bag is clearly too small, despite the claim of being able to handle an up to 60-inch girth tree. It is absolutely impossible to initially get all the bottom-most hinged branches of the tree inside the bag to then start advancing the bag upward to eventually cover the entire tree. If I were somehow able to succeed in getting my tree to fit inside this straitjacket of a tree storage bag (perhaps a Japanese Sumo wrestler could do so?), I can only imagine the difficulties that would arise next year when trying to get the tree out of the bag for the holidays. Other disappointed reviewers have had to literally cut their Christmas tree out of this bag the very next year and/or ended up damaging their tree in the process!

Is it rocket science to make the bag large enough to fit the tree without a Herculean struggle?

I wish that I had known the name of the underlying manufacturer (Treekeeperbag) of this storage bag before purchasing it last year directly from Balsam Hill. Reading through the reviews here on Amazon.com definitely would have resulted in my never having purchased this item in the first place and, even if I had been foolish enough to do so, I would at least have been protected by Amazons generous 30-day return policy.

As it now stands, I will be donating this item, which is clearly not fit for its intended purpose, to my local branch of Catholic Charities. Perhaps they will have a Lilliputian Christmas tree available to fit this engineering marvel which also rightfully deserves to be called a piece of c**p. I will continue to use the original packaging/boxes to store my tree; it's the clearly much easier and superior storage solution. An acceptable alternative, low-stress storage solution might be a large rolling duffle bag specifically designed for Christmas trees of which several models are available here on Amazon.com.

This most definitely is NOT a recommended item and qualifies as one of my absolutely worst online purchases ever! The would-be hermit recommends performing an exorcism on this devilishly disappointing item immediately and banishing it from your holiday celebrations for evermore before it destroys all your holiday cheer: Be gone Satan!
4241687
Horrible mistake,  the room filled with smoke as if we were camp side. Smoke alarm went off! Not a inside smell, but more of outdoors, something is burning smell. Almost ruined holidays
1591930
My husband had this thing for an hour. He followed all the directions. It was running out of battery power and he pushed the "return home" button, but instead it flew away. Into the woods. It's nowhere to be found. Christmas is officially ruined. Thanks a lot.
4535692
When they were lit up, they were beautiful.  However, in less than 1 week all the lights burned out. They were on during the day and turned off at night. They recommend taking these camping???  I would hope the live of these lights lasted longer on my camping trip.  I was very disappointed in their lifespan.  I decorated my office Christmas tree and garland hoping to add a beautiful light accent and now I have no lights.  Would not buy again.
2831796
The tree is up and decorated, Happy Holidays!
Would I purchase this tree again, NO!!
This purchase is my first artificial tree moving from the real thing. The write-up on how easy to put the tree together and the storage is all true. Positive selling points for me. Another selling point, which was extremely important to my purchase, was how "real" the tree was to look. To state, once more, always had real trees until now!  But, I never had a real tree whose trunk was brightly lit up!!!  Have you?  At first glance and all glances, FAKE, FAKE, FAKE!!!!!  I tried to camouflage it by fluffing the branches around the ten sections (layers of how the tree comes together) to no avail, just adds wholes where the light shines through!  AND, this wasn't a cheap tree.
To conclude, extremely disappointed with this product!  I would return it if Christmas wasn't just a few days away and if the tree wasn't all decorated. Would not recommend to any one.

Note--- this is with the white lights as the colored lights do not illuminate the trunk. For me, I purchased it mainly for the white lights and using the colored lights for when my grandchild comes for a visit.
2082789
These plants are pretty and were quite a fad down here in Tampa Bay, Florida.  People put them on their porches in cute little fence decorations.  They get seeds.  The seeds blow and end up attached to trees.  The plants look so much like Spanish moss once they are wrapped tight around the tree branch.  They they attach tighter and tighter, more seeds fly and then they are all over the trees.  They literally choke the big, beautiful trees to death.  The nutrients cannot get thru the strangle hold.  People who have the money to do it, pay tree surgeons to come and cut them off the trees, cut branches, you can imagine the cost on a big beautiful tree.  The tree branches turn white, it's so sad.  So, yes cute but deadly.  Do your research.  I pick these things off wherever I can reach them, but it has become way out of control.  Another example of introducing a foreign plant to an area that has never had them.

I am going to do another review at another seller and include a photo.  I didn't know I could add photo.  I'm sure there are plenty on the computer because of the tree damage.  The seeds are the problem, that and the fact that once in the tree, it resembles Spanish moss.
2246174
I thought this light was great until today.. I had been using it with no problem. Luckily I only turn it on if I am doing something right under it because today I smelled something burning. Turns out part of the bulb turned back and the plastic cover started to melt and smoke. I wouldn't recommend this product for your safety! I'm scared to think what would have happened if I left my room for a little bit with the light on!
139915
I ordered two of these lamps to sit on either side of the bed in my bedroom.  One lamp was damaged in the box (though the box wasn't damaged) and couldn't be assembled.  The other was successfully assembled, but I couldn't believe how awful the quality was.  The lamps are so lightweight they could be knocked over with very little pressure.  The shades wouldn't sit properly on the lamp no matter how I tried to assemble them.  I packed them right back up and returned them immediately.  If I could I'd rate these lamps at 0 stars.  Do NOT waste your time and do NOT order these.  I read the reviews carefully and thought I knew what I was in for.  NOPE!  These were horrible, weak, cheap lamps.

ALSO, the light bulb was extremely hot IMMEDIATELY after turning the light on, and it smelled like burning.  I wouldn't have felt safe leaving these things on for more than a minute at a time.
15479
These lights are terrible! The only rewarding aspect is the fact that they're small yet STUPIDLY bright. Yup, they are bright. But what good is that when any sizeable bump in the road shocks the circuitry and turns them off?! I installed 3 on my road bicycle, all mounted using the rubber strap to the chainstays. THEY ALL suffer from the same problem, rendering them unsafe components to rely on since the only option is to continually check whether they are still on after you hit noticeable bumps. Absolutely completely disappointed in this product. Good thing it's cheap, because otherwise my pocket would be very angry as well!
869494
Well here's the deal. I bought two of theses lights based entirely on the reviews. After a month one of the lights went bad, and I contacted the seller. They were very accommodating in that the replaced the light. When I received the replacement, it was a different style light, but it worked because i used it in a different part of my yard. Last night while letting my dog out i noticed that the one corner of my yard was very dark. Well turns out that the second light in the two light pack went bad as well. Because I'm tired of dealing with this same issue, I have decided, that a review of my own is warranted. I would not recommend theses light for the simple fact that they don't stnd up to the daily effects of the weather. I will take a loss and move on to another brand, and hope for a better outcome. I purchased these lights from a company called VicTsing. So I highly recommend of looking elsewhere for lights of these types. THERE JUNK
4480234
Had the tree just a few days and the lights went out. Checked bulbs and found no problems. Nice when working but not now so I will be taking it back. Very disappointed in the trees performance and customer care when I called. They said check the bulbs and I did, now what? Don't buy this tree!
4660590
I'M LUCKY I WASN'T ARRESTED!!! We took these lanterns to a park by the river. What ensued was CHAOS. The one lantern that FINALLY made it aloft didn't want to sail beautifully over the river. NO, it wanted to hover, black smoke belching, over a man in a wheelchair. It was a complete disaster. Instead of lovely white lanterns, the ones that lit became smoking husks of sickening flames and fumes. Worst purchase I've ever made on Amazon. I don't have anything to return except for some ashes and wire. Before you ask, YES, I've enjoyed setting several lanterns off, and those were joyful. This was a gosh darn nightmare. And YES, we followed the directions and no one was drunk. (But I sure got drunk later as I thanked my lucky stars no one was injured)
2306542
if you expect to use this outdoors, it will not work unless you hold it still and pointed south. so much as a leafless tree, and you loose the signal. not to mention putting it in a shirt pocket and expecting to enjoy it while out for a walk or in the feild is impossable. using it indoors is just as bad. if you don't have a south window no signal. I cannot beleive they are allowed to market this the way they do. if your active outdoors  this is nothing more than a expensive mp3 player with a monthly charge. stay away