What are the requirements on aliexpress to become fully successful on dropshipping. The products will come from aliexpress. Customers has ordered specifics or items, can you tell the aliexpress that you are dropshipping their items and make it possible not to tag price etc. Advice to all oldies in drop shipping glad to meet you and thanks for your replies (shake hands)
Been dropshipping with eBay, Amazon, and using Shopify for probably around 4 years now, and can safely say in my opinion if you're worrying about slips, receipts or invoices included in packages to customers from Aliexpress you are already worrying too much...
Sure its something to keep an eye on, and of course you can message them per order to ensure they don't include them, however from the 1000's of items I've dealt with and sold high quantities of, the vast majority of Aliexpress sellers don't actually include anything inside the delivery packet mainly because the price of the item you have paid to them is actually included on the shipping slip glued on the front of the parcel which is something you cannot get around.
They show the price you paid approx from Aliexspress next to the Weight information on the package as this is information required by customs and Air Mail to keep track of shipping values. The delivery package is also usually yellow with a white slip attached to it. In most cases this information is actually covered once it passes through different checkpoints with other white slips that conveniently get glued on top.
Even if price information is shown to a customer on the front of the parcel, you will never really have an issue. I have eBay shops with 17k or more feedback and have yet to receive a question or complaint about this information, put simply people don't even look, they look at the address to confirm its for them and rip it open. They don't even seem to know what this information represents or in most cases must think this is some kind of shipping fee for the item paid by you.
The exceptions to this are Aliexpress stores that are heavily branded, stores that openly have logo's on the items or clearly are trying to brand themselves and have selective stock at higher prices than the norm, these are the shops to keep an eye on if you dropship from as they are more likely to include things such as catalogues or new product line slips within the package with the aliexpress store link clearly shown, I usually avoid these kinds of stores simply for this fact.
Bottom line is, if you find a product that you really want to sell large quantities of have them ship a sample or single item to you, check the package inside and out and then its likely the majority of what they stock and ship will come just like this. It also gives you the opportunity to test quality and take your own pictures.
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@Billy Batts touched on, Dropshipping is easy to start but harder to grow and become successful, especially if you are constantly worried about the smaller things as it will become impossible to scale the business. There is no way I could have grown mine if I had myself or VA's having to message every single order to tell them "I'm dropshipping, please don't include slips or receipts" as you are taking time away from actually selling items or growing it.
The same applies with customer service, don't let one issue consume your time or slow you down, your number #1 goal is selling, finding new items and growth. If you can either have time slots where you deal with problems that arise and customer service all in one go, or alternatively (the method I use) Have a team of 2 VA's deal with customer service, refunds, non item receipts, and orders. So you can concentrate on the important stuff. Selling.
