I'm posting this after 12 months of ownership. We bought the tree in November of 2015 and the first Christmas went very well with no problems and many compliments of our tree. However Christmas 2016 started out different. We put up the tree a day after Thanksgiving, enjoyed it for two days, then the lights stopped working. We found the transformer had failed and had to order  a replacement through the manufacturer. It has now been a week waiting for the part, and we've been looking at a dark tree when we should be enjoying the lights of a top rated  Christmas tree. Hopefully the part will arrive soon or we will have to try to replace the tree with a better one before our families Christmas get together.