I'm 17. I have $360 left and a box that isn't finished yet.

I don't know if this is a business. It might just be a very expensive lesson in how factories treat teenagers.
Three weeks ago I wired money to a packaging factory in Dongguan.
They make boxes. I needed a specific box. Simple transaction.
Except it's not simple because I keep rejecting their samples and they keep sending me the same sample with slightly different lighting and calling it a revision.
Last week I rejected one because they filmed the color approval video under yellow office lighting instead of daylight.
They think I'm insane.
Maybe.
The box:
Bone-white. 1440g board.
90° edges. Hard edges. Not folded-looking edges.
A red line where the lid meets the base. Specific red. I have the Pantone number. The factory does not seem to care about the Pantone number.
Heavy. Heavier than it needs to be. That's intentional.
There's tea inside. Premium tea. But I stopped leading with that because every time I say "tea brand" people picture a farmers market and I lose them.
It's more like — an object that happens to contain tea.
I don't have a cleaner way to say that yet.
I want to sell 500 of these at $48.
I don't have a store. I don't have photos. The prototype hasn't cleared QC.
What I have is $360 and a factory that's currently annoyed at me and a Pantone swatch I've been carrying around for two weeks.
If this doesn't work:
I'm 17 with no degree, no savings, and a story about the time I blew my last money arguing with a factory over a color that nobody ended up buying.
That's the actual downside. I've been thinking about it more than I probably should.
I'm not posting this because I have answers.
I'm posting this because I have $360 left and the prototype should arrive this week and I need to talk to people who've actually shipped physical things to strangers on the internet.
Some questions:
How do you get a factory to execute specs precisely when your order size is too small for them to care?
Has anyone sold a physical product to strangers with zero?
I'm limiting the first run to 500 boxes.
If you want one — or just want to see if this thing actually ships — you can join the waitlist here: kerryshi.substack.com
No payment yet. Just your email. I'll update everyone when the prototype clears.