Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought three 3-packs and all nine candles have warped bottoms. In a candle lantern, such as the single UCO model, without flat bottoms the candle never has a chance to finish burning to it's last 20% without melting unevenly and dripping inside the lantern, making a huge mess. Some of the candles themselves are warped along the shaft. I have to throw away the last 25% of the candle before it drips melted wax into the interior. May be decent candles if you're going to melt the bottom and stand it on a plate, but for me they're useless in a UCO candle lantern, and therefore, I wouldn't buy this brand again. The candles that came with my original Candle Lantern brand lantern were perfect, but these are quite different. Maybe I'll have to try the over-priced bee's wax type to get good quality. One last comment: these candles are rated for a 9 hour burn time. However, having to dispose of the last 20-25% brings that figure down to roughly 7 hrs. Yet I have UCO tea light lanterns which burn 1 tea light, hold a spare, and each is rated at 4 hrs burn time (for a total of 8 hrs, making the savings by comparison, huge). I just bought a 100-120 pack of Zion-brand tea lights for those and they burn nice; you're actually getting the same burn time for pennies compared to the inferior "9 hour" candles that waste the last 20-ish percent.