After loosing my 10 ft. artificial Christmas tree to the flooding of my basement I was shopping for a new artificial Christmas tree. I am a florist by trade and have done custom decorating for twenty years, so I have decorated a few Christmas trees.  I did not want another large tree so I purchased this fir 7.5 ft.  I was very excited to receive the tree in less than a week but when I started putting the tree together and was very disappointed the middle section  electrical receptacle did not fit in the bottom one, therefore, I had to run another extension cord to my outlet. This also accommodated the extra set of lights I needed to add.  (there was not enough lights to my liking)  Very time consuming with first fluffing of the tree as with any tree.  Over all?? Nice tree but better trees out there for the money.