I purchased this balloon drop kit for our New Year's Eve party with my boyfriend's kids, ages nearly 7 and 5. First, the kids were super-excited about the balloons. When they saw the balloons hanging, they immediately wanted to let them loose. It was really cute.I received the kit in a timely fashion, unfortunately, it was damaged in that certain colors of balloons had holes or weak spots. None of the green balloons were useable - all had holes or weak spots such that they exploded when blown up. The yellow balloons also had many weak spots, but I was able to blow up a few of them. The other colors (red, blue, orange) were fine.The kit arrived without any instructions...which I realize, it's self-explanatory to an extent - you blow up the balloons and put them in the large clear bag - but there was nothing about how to hang the bag, or that you need to blow up the balloons before putting them in the bag as the bag hole isn't large enough. Not everyone might realize that before blowing up the balloons. The kit comes with a pump, thank goodness, because there are a LOT of balloons. I didn't realize it before I bought this, but the bag the balloons come in is not really re-useable. The rip chord is sewn into the plastic, and when you let the balloons loose, you rip out the seams. I suppose someone could sew a new rip chord onto the bag, but I'm not that kind of lady. The pump worked really well and, although the bag the balloons are put into is not re-useable, the pump can be re-used for future balloon blowing-up activities, so that's good. I recommend planning well in advance for where you'll hang the kit. We hung it off of our second floor balcony.All in all, this was a good purchase for the amount that I paid. The kids loved it and even the adults had fun hitting/tossing/kicking, etc. the balloons at our party.Some of them would not separate and were un-usable, other than that they worked great. Would buy again even knowing that some will not be able to be used.We got this balloon drop bag for a New Year's Eve party for my 12-yr-old daughter & her friends.Be aware that the balloons don't come with it. That was no problem in our case, but you might want to bear it in mind so you pick up the balloons ahead.The bag worked fine, rip cord worked like a charm, and the kids had a great time stomping on balloons and hearlding in the New Year! It was definitely worth what I paid, though if I'd laid out $[...] like the other reviewer here, I wouldn't have been as happy.The downside is that the sticky tabs that were supposed to hold the bag up weren't actually sticky. We'd figured on attaching it into the recess of a roof window. DH wound up tying the tabs at the ends of the bag to the operating hardware of a couple adjacent roof windows, and everything worked just fine BUT if we hadn't had the roof windows, we'd have been at a loss for how to attach it to the ceiling. I wouldn't want to risk a rain of push-pins coming down with the balloons!I'd suggest having a plan B for suspending the bag in case you get non-sticky tabs on yours, too. Otherwise, fun item.I bought this from my son's 2nd birthday.Price:great!Quality: amazing when I did it.. I had a bigger expectation.... but.. for some reason it wasn't as cool. The balloons just fell. I wish I added some flair to it. Like glow in the dark balloons and make it dark with laser lights... and awesome music!! But. I had a budget :DI did not like the balloon air pumper. It was VERY slow. Please get a better air pumper. It will save your lungs.Balloons were small.butyou don't want it to big! So it was perfectSetup: easy! Make sure you can reach the ceiling. Because you will need to hook it up to the ceiling (obviously)..Am I happy I bought this? YES!I got a fun "boomerang" out of it. So did my friends and their kids!We purchased these Balloon Stick Ups for our daughter's 5th birthday party. We were having it at the local Indoor Inflatable Jump Jump Place and we used them in their Party Room. They were easy to stick to the wall and remove after the party and they kept all of the balloons in place during the entire party. We had a family party the next weekend and used them again, and they didn't work as well on our painted walls at home. We ended sticking them on the metal handles and other fixtures. The other negative is that if you use the circle tabs that you feed the balloon tie through, you can really only hang the balloons downward, not pointing up. If you stick them to the middle of the balloon, you can turn the balloon upwards a little better. Overall, these balloon stick ups work OK on some surfaces, but not all, so be aware if you want to give them a try.We bought this for our daughters Kindergarten graduation ceremony and it was nice. It held a lot of balloons and our daughter LOVED being showered with balloons. The only reason I gave it 4 stars and not 5 is because my husband had to hold one end of it while I pulled the string or else it would have just fell from the ceiling. There wasn't really a good way to secure it so that it could be pulled by one person.I've bought this a few times now, it easy to set up and works well. I use white Gaffer tape to stick it to the ceiling, which can cause some paint to come off, but I do think it needs strong tape to hold it up (if you do want it to be stuck to the ceiling). Otherwise the rip cord would probably take the whole balloon bag down with it. There are re-useable nets that would make a more environmentally friendly alternative.Bought this for my grandsons 8th birthday. Was ok putting it all together, however the pulling the string to release balloons did not work, the whole thing just literally came away from the ceiling! I would not recommend this product!When you buy a product that is meant to drop balloons, you'd expect the product to drop balloons and not have the entire product, including balloons fall on your head when pulling the rip cord.On opening the package (which had no instructions) it was clear that the effectiveness of the balloon drop bag was dubious.The opening for the the larger size stated in the description was insufficient, and the cardboard tags attached to the bag to attach to the wall/ceiling were not well secured.Having filled the bag and attached to the wall, we waited for midnight to strike and pulled the ripcords (we bought two) .Basically, the cardboard tags provided no structure for the badly designed rip cord and we had two balloon drop bags land on our head, thank goodness, only balloons. It resulted in us waving the bag around in the air to try and get the balloons out.I'd definitely not recommend this product or ever buy it again.We bought some dust sheets for the rest of the pub, with a bit of rope and masking tape which was far more effective.Really happy with product. Easy to use. Excellent for all types of balloon I have used!I only gave one star because you can’t give 0. Complete waste of money, doesnt work at all!