GE StayBright 300-Count 74.5-ft Warm White LED Plug-In Christmas String Lights

Christmas 2020, I purchased nine reels of these lights to use outdoors. Six reels of lights were placed on shrubs and around my deck; the remaining three reels were backup sets. During the first two weeks, the lights were bright and looked great. After 2 weeks, multiple sections across multiple strands started to go out or would flicker in the cold weather. Over the next few weeks, additional sections of the lights stopped working. I attempted to find and replace faulty bulbs and swapped out non-working strands with the backup sets from the remaining three reels - then sections of the replacement strands stopped working. I missed the return window and had to discard all of the lights. Nine reels of lights in the trash and hundreds of dollars down the drain. This is not what I would expect from a GE product. If I could give less than a one star rating, I would. Never again.