At the touch of a button the twinkling tree – with inbuilt lights – unfurls itself, saving owners from having to wrestle with branches.
Beth Call thought it was a pretty good deal at $60 and snapped up the bargain.
The only problem was, Call never received her tree.
What arrived at her Ohio home was a bafflingly small package – sent from China and not from Chicago as advertised.
When Call opened the package she found a small, compact mirror.
“I was really confused – and not to mention the mirror is so ugly,” she said.
Call then went onto the seller’s Facebook page, where she saw a barrage of negative reviews from angry customers.
“It’s so aggravating,” she said. “I started to see how many people had been ordering either the wreaths or the trees and were ending up with the same thing that I received in the mail,” Call said.
Isabel Denney-Rocha was going through the same dilemma after also buying the “magic” tree.
But, instead of a mirror, what arrived on her doorstop was a set of cheap, plastic toothbrushes.
“My reaction was, ‘I didn’t order these’, but I was still waiting and excited for my tree,” she said.
She said she finally realised it was a scam when she also spotted the reviews online.
