Everything sounds easy and fun until you try it. Buying and selling lunchboxes is one of those especially deceptive enterprises. It looks like fun and games from the outside, but once you are in the dirty world of rusted corners and peanut butter smelling crud you'll never look at lunchboxes the same way again. The above-mentioned situations are not the worst of it either, it's the surprise of getting a modern box when you thought you purchased a vintage box or realizing the back of the box is not even visible, but you purchased the box based on the only photo you saw. There is something lurking behind every under-described item on ebay.
I've gotten some of the boxes sent to one address and some of my boxes sent to another address. So now I have tried to figure out which ones I've received and which ones I haven't. I've created a spreadsheet to record my pricing and to make notes on the quality of the boxes, but many of the people send the box with only a return address label to identify them with so now I have to go back and look at each box and cross reference the city to the auctions I've won to make sure I've got the right person. It doesn't help that I have bought several of some styles of lunchboxes and nearly 100 lunch boxes in the last few weeks.
Lastly, I have been trying to reload the lunchboxes onto my website for sale online at yque.com, which requires me to photograph each box. I've been doing that on my porch and the light is only right in the morning, because later it has been too bright and the metal reflects and the images don't show properly. Here is the photo gallery of the lunchboxes I've photographed so far. Eventually I need to describe the items accurately and get the fresh photos up to replace the auction photos that I am throwing up in the meantime to get the ball rolling.
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