When you drop ship products from China to consumers all around the world, the supplier will include the Aliexpress.com order value on the outside of the package because its required for customs clearance.
A lot of people are very concerned about this.
The big fear is:
“What if the customer sees the original price on the package?”
First of all, you have to stop making any assumptions. You’re literally creating problems in your mind that don’t really exist in the real world.
Let’s look at the two most common scenarios:
1) Free plus shipping
If you’re running free plus shipping offers, the price of the product on your store will be $0. That means the customer really didn’t pay anything for the actual product on your store. All he or she paid for is the shipping and handling. So the price that’s on the outside of the package doesn’t matter, since the product is framed as free.
Whenever you’re promoting free plus shipping offers, the “problem” of having the price on the outside of the package is simply irrelevant.
2) Retail offers
If you’re not doing free plus shipping but are giving a 50% discount or something, then the price information on the package matters more.
However, in most cases it’s not a problem at all.
Here’s why.
When your customers receive the package, they usually rip it open right away to see what’s inside. We’re very curious as human beings and it’s hard to actually not rip open a package as soon as it arrives.
Once the package is open, the customer will focus almost entirely on the product itself, since that’s the thing he desired and ordered.
At this point the price is almost irrelevant.
It’s a thing of the past, and the whole attention of the customer is focused on the item and its utility: Using it, trying it, wearing it.
Also you have to realise that the price information on the outside of these packages is usually quite small. There’s a ton of information and numbers and values on the outside of the package that are required for customs clearance. I recently ordered a product and it took me about two minutes to even spot the price information.
There was a little box called value with a number next to it.
Furthermore, most customers won’t even remember what they paid on your website. How do I know? Because I get comments on my Facebook ads all the time from past customers saying the paid this much or that much for the package, and it’s usually totally wrong.
They say, I spend $5,99, when in reality the cost was $9.99. It’s easy for me to know since I’m the store owner. But most customers don’t even remember what they paid within 48 hours. And if your package arrives in 2-4 weeks, it’s even harder to know the exact value. And even if your customer remembers the exact price, he or she is likely 1) be too focussed on the product 2) not see the price information.
You can also place a test order for your product and see how it arrives and look at the package and how obvious the price is.
Plus when you run your drop shipping store and get your first 10 customers, see how many of them complain or reach out. I can almost guarantee that it’s maximum 0.01-0.1% and not more.
Yes, you’ll get a few people complaining but the majority of people will simply not care because of the reasons I’ve stated in this post.
So one more time: Stop making assumptions and look at the actual data. And please stop creating problems in your own mind. There’s going to be enough real problems, no need to create new one’s that don’t really exist in the real world. Don’t be so freaking scared 
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