I want to do drop shipping with book cost not being listed on the reciept

[BassoRidiculoso]

Is this possible?

I have a store that wants to sell my book, and I want to ship to them directly, just not have my cost for the title appear on the recipt they get with the books.

I would really rather not have to pay shipping twice, once to me, then re-shipping it to them.

Seems like this should be an available option somewhere.

[kevinlomas]

Some say the price is not listed on the invoices.
But why not get the store to order them direct? I assume they will still be paying the price as shown on Lulu will they not? (And they can look it up anyway!)

[BassoRidiculoso]

No, they won't pay the full retail price, or they won't stock it because they will not make any money. They have to get it at a lower price than retail in order to resell it at actual retail price.

The reciepts from my proofs have the price on them, so I don't want them to see the cost per book of printing.

[kevinlomas]

All they need is the ISBN to find the price, but I know what you mean.
But you cannot set multiple prices on Lulu. Even if you order your own books while logged on and have them sent somewhere else, it will be at cost. No profit for you in otherwords.
If you log off and order your own books and have them sent elsewhere, it will be at the 'retail' price you have set.
So you will have log back on to set another lower 'retail' price, log off, order fast, then log back on to set it back up! :-)
I think!
There is a small discount starting if you order above 20 I think though.
To be honest I am amazed they will even pay cost price for BOD created books.

[james_denham]

Goog mornimg,
I take orders through my website and have the bookd forwarded to the customer, there are no mention of prices on the shipping notes.
James

[Ken Anderson · Accepted solution]

Basso,
An invoice is not sent.
A shipping slip is included but no costs are shown in any way at all.

[BassoRidiculoso]

awesome news, this is great. I am glad they have thought of this!
Thanks for the confirmation.

[ronysmith]

So I want to do the same and I'm a little unclear how you have set up your website.  Do you use Pay pal or something, and then manually fulfill the orders on Lulu by ordering the book(s) at your cost, then changing the address?

Thanks

[Ken Anderson]

Yes

[kevinlomas]

First call the forum? Is the My Lulu tab invisible? Or does one have to open an account first? People do seem to be a bit wary of that ...