You are limited in your color choices. One disadvantage to a pre-lit tree is the fact that the lights cannot be changed. This means that you are bound to use the same color lights every year, limiting your decorative possibilities. The same factor that can make a pre-lit tree seem convenient can quickly become a source of frustration when your tastes change.

If your lights break, you've lost your entire investment. If the lights strung on a traditional artificial tree should break, it is fairly simple and inexpensive to simply buy a new set. With a pre-lit tree the lights are permanently installed, so when they break the entire tree is unusable.

You won't be satisfied with the number of lights. On a pre-lit tree, the number and density of lights is determined for you. Many people find, once they get them home, that pre-lit trees are under-lit for their taste. Sometimes they wind up putting more lights on the tree anyway, defeating the purpose of buying a pre-lit tree to begin with.

The foliage and construction cannot compare with a Christmas Depot tree. Christmas Depot produces the finest artificial Christmas trees available on Earth, and they do not make pre-lit trees. Anyone who has ever experienced the premium quality of a Christmas Depot tree will not be satisfied with a pre-lit tree. Most pre-lit trees must be assembled by the customer, and look obviously artificial.