Philips Hue Bluetooth Gradient Ambiance Smart Lightstrip

The pros: I bought the gradient strip to put on the backside of my desk to light up the wall behind my Samsung Neo G9. It looked absolutely amazing and really took my gaming/work setup to the next level. But the fun didn’t last long. Flipping breaker in our house: Unfortunately after I bought this light strip, the breaker in our townhouse mysteriously started tripping every other day. We couldn’t figure out what the problem was. An electrician that we called asked us if we had any LED lights in the house. Surprised, we said yeah. He told us to unplug them. I unplugged this light strip and suddenly our breakers stopped flipping. Coincident? Unlikely. Prob almost burned our house down: A few weeks later I plugged the light strip back in for a day and within 30 minutes of me doing so the breaker flipped THREE TIMES in a span of like 8 minutes. Got a used product apparently: I saw in quite a few other reviews that people said they received used units despite them being advertised as new. Funny enough, when I opened mine up, the adhesive was completely detached from the strip in one spot towards the end of the strip. I didn’t give it much thought until now but why would my “brand new” light strip be in that condition? Hue customer service: By the time I realized this light strip was causing major electrical problems in our brand new townhouse I was outside the return window and had to go through Hues customer service. To their credit they did let me send the product back. They were supposed to send me another one but it was backordered for literally months but weirdly was in stock on Amazon? I guess because they’re secretly selling used units on here that others have returned for defects. Eventually Hue offered me a full refund when it became apparent that it wasn’t going to be back in stock any time soon. Whole process took like 2 months due to the back ordering issue. If I had just asked for money back right away it all prob would’ve been sorted in like 2 weeks. Summary: Was defective. Caused electrical issues in my house. Hue refunded me. Don’t waste your money. Update 2/24/23: I received one of these light strips as a gift (this one came directly from the Hue website), plugged it in, and after literally THREE days of being plugged in, the entire strip stopped working. Only the very end near the plug lights up. I'm literally flabbergasted by how poor the quality of Hue products are. It's no wonder they don't let customers leave reviews. I actually cannot believe they get away with selling products of this terrible quality for this much money. STAY AWAY. If you're going to risk it with these light strips just try Govee. At least they're half the price so if it breaks you wont get burned as bad.