I was excited that I had found the perfect Fraser Fir with 1250 lights.  The price was a little higher than I wanted to pay, but everything else on the tree was right.
When I received the tree, I immediately took it out of the box to make sure that all the lights were working.  To my surprise, the tree tips looked great.  The "fir" on the inside of the branches was a fat paper material.  My excitement quickly went away.