Hammacher Schlemmer Trees Fraser Vs Noble Fir Customer Review

Update, December 3, 2019:  I'm calculation an update to this post today, 2 years after I first published this mail service. I just looked at the ane-star reviews at the Balsam Hill website and two years later, they've all the same never posted my i-star review. If you look at the 1-star reviews in that location, you lot'll come across a big gap between the years/dates of the negative reviews. Since they've never published my review, I am highly suspicious that they don't publish the bulk of the negative reviews they receive.

Before you spend hundreds of dollars on a tree from this company, Google "Balsam Colina Christmas Tree Complaints" and read the reviews you'll discover online at other websites. Likewise, check out the reviews I found Hither and Here and Hither. The reviews on those sites are very eye-opening and are right in line with what I experienced.

End Update

After reading then many great reviews over the years most Balsam Hill Christmas trees, I decided this year to splurge and spend the $700+ to go my very own. After information technology arrived earlier in the week, I got it out of the box to bank check it over to brand sure the lights worked and all was okay.

The tree I purchased for $719.74 was the Balsam Colina BH Fraser Fir. It is from Balsam Hill's "About Realistic" Collection. For reference, this is a photo from their website of how the tree is supposed to await when assembled.

In many of the videos I watched on YouTube before purchasing my tree, they evidence close-ups of the "realistic" branches of the Balsam Colina Fraser Fir. Though my tree is from their "Virtually Realistic" line, it has very few of those "realistic" needles that they evidence in the videos. The realistic needles/branches are actually just clustered together along the very outer edges of each branch as shown beneath. The rest of the tree is the typical bogus tree needles you find on much less expensive Christmas trees.

Some other photograph that shows how the "realistic" branches are only along the outer edges of the tree. I don't know if this is how all their trees look or if it'southward merely their BH Fraser Fir.

For $700+, I thought the lighting would be wound around each branch with lights all along the branches, but it's not. The majority of the lighting is right along the tips.

A closer view showing how the lighting is generally but on the outer tips of the branches.

Large Sections With No Lighting at All

This tree likewise has big sections/areas where there's no lighting at all. In the photo below, I gathered one of those large sections together and then you could come across the areas I'm talking about and how large they are. When I permit go of the branches, they spread out fifty-fifty farther, so the sections with no lights are quite large.

Here's another section with no lights. At that place are quite a few places like this on my Balsam Hill Fraser Fir tree.

On the very outer edges of the branches where in that location are lights, the lighting was strung so tightly together, it prevented me from being able to pull the branches outward very far to fill up the many gaps and holes all over the tree. No matter how hard I pulled, to the signal of thinking I might even harm the wiring, I found myself unable to spread out the branches very far at all.

Bare Branches with no Limbs or Needles

Some other affair that bothered about this tree that I've never seen on any other tree I've endemic, is there are areas of the branches that are missing needles and are totally bare.

This area wasn't that far back in the tree, either. It's only a few inches past where the "realistic" branches end and is totally noticeable considering of all the big gaps in the tree.

Another one of the baldheaded spots that'southward bare. (Notation pointer)

Big Gaps

I was then saddened and discouraged after I got this tree out of the box the 24-hour interval information technology arrived, subsequently putting the first department in the stand and attempting to fluff out the branches (which was impossible due to the spider spider web of wires on the outer edges of the branches) I stopped and went to bed.

The side by side mean solar day I tried to piece of work on it some more and placed the next department on superlative. No matter how much I worked on fluffing it out, it was impossible to fill all the big empty gaps. How they e'er achieved the look of the photo at the Balsam Hill website, I do not know. No matter how hard I tried to separate the branches out wider to hide the large gaps in the tree, they were held fast in place by the web of wiring on the outer tips of the branches as shown in the before pictures in this post.

So many gaps. 🙁

Tonight I went ahead and placed the top department on the tree just to run across if the height would have been okay. I'm non going to endeavour to fluff that section out since I'll be returning the tree. I dread having to squish everything back downwardly to get information technology back into its box. Update: It wasn't that difficult to get back in the box, FedEx picked information technology back up today.

Even the lighting was a disappointment. Compared to the trees I've been using over the past ten years, the lights are non very bright at all.  I wanted to share these pictures with you because I had mentioned in a previous post that I would exist ordering a Balsam Colina tree. I don't know how all their trees look, just this was definitely not what I expected afterwards watching videos on YouTube and seeing the photos online.

I left a i-Star review on this tree at the Balsam Colina website several days agone, but it all the same hasn't been published. I oasis't noticed any new reviews being published on this tree in the past calendar week, so not sure how current the reviews are that y'all encounter in that location.

I will be Christmas tree hunting again this weekend. If I can't find anything that I like, I'll accept to use my narrow "kitchen" tree again in the living room this yr.

Wish me luck in finding a improve tree for this room, and if yous know of a actually cute tree, please allow me know. I saw some interesting ones in Lowe's today in the $300 and $400 range. Will exist back on the hunt for a cute, quality tree this weekend.

Update: I found a gorgeous tree and admittedly beloved information technology! You lot tin can run across and read virtually it in this postal service: It Was Worth the Hunt, Love This Christmas Tree.

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