Does NOT look like the photo as advertised.

I'll start off with the pros. It was easy to put together and the pole connection of the lights is cool, but unfortunately that wasn't enough for me to keep it. To me it looked nothing like the photo. It's just a tall, fat, cone shaped christmas tree. Nothing special. The photo makes it appear as it has defined shaped branches that are angled downward and even cover the base of the tree. This was not the case. The branches stuck straight out sideways, did not reach downwards towards the ground, and because of the no fluff branches, was quite patchy in areas and couldn't be shaped to look right. There was also a huge gap between the very top piece and the next section of the tree that I had to try to bend some branches down to cover but they didn't want to stay. So if you just want a tall fat tree that is easy to assemble then this would be a decent tree for you, but unfortunately it was not the slender, full, unique looking tree in the photo. We took a family survey and everyone said it looked nothing like the photo. I was pretty disappointed. I wish I would have taken a photo with the lights on to show what it looked like because it looked worse than in the dark.