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    I got a pre-lit last week at Kohls. We went to put it up tonight, and a third of the bottom stack didn't light up. I checked it, and the wire was hanging loose, with a knot in it. It wasn't wired to the rest of the plug ins. Just hanging there! I knew it was too good a deal. Guess who has to lug a tree back to Kohls tomorrow? Cripes, and I just wanted to avoid that mess tomorrow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gonnascream View Post
    Dh got me a pre lit tree last year. Today we go to put it up, and none of the light are working ! Do you know what a pain it is to undo the lights then re-string them ??? OMG I am sticking to just the old fashioned trees from now on, cause if one light decided to take a dump, they all do.
    We bought two years ago on half price clearence after Christmas for last year, we plugged it in before we stored it and when we took it out, 1 string of lights didn't work, we were SO mad because it hadn't been used at all! We restrung it, what can we say, we're rednecks!
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    We have 2 prelit trees for 4 or 5 years - Have never had a problem.
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    I have had one for 3 yrs also and it has always worked this would be the 4th year but this year we are not putting up our tree instead my dh bought me at a auction tonight a brand new set of 5ft santa and mrs claus that sing and dance they sell for 99.99 at kmart and we got both for 100.00 so we will not have room if i put the tree and both of them up so this yr we will do the santa and mrs claus since we will have most of our grandkids spending the night on xmas eve.

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    I have a prelit tree as well. This is my 3 or 4th year using it. It is also fiber optic which part of that seems to have bit the dust tonight. They still light up, they just don't change colors anymore. But the regular lights work fine. For whatever that tells anyone.
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    I bought a pre-lit tree a couple of years ago (got it at a really good price at the time) and my son was helping me to get the lights figured out this year. It seems that in each of the plugs (the white lights have 3 or 4 plugs going into each other..and the color lights..ditto) at the base of the plug itself is a little compartment with 2 fuses. If one of those is loose or blown the lights won't work. Just replace the fuse. My tree came with a baggie of extra fuses. Good luck.

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    This thread had me paranoid, because I bought one after christmas last year. It was a $200 one I got for $20 at Target, we put it up last night and it is beautiful.

    I was thinking of getting rid of my old tree, but thanks to your post I am going to keep it just in case my new one dies!!!

    Also my new tree has white lights and some years we opt for colored!

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