**The white background requirement deadline is extended to 06/30/2021**
The Handmade team has monitored your feedback and it is clear our Makers need more time to adhere to the new requirements. We appreciate the feedback and want to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Tips & Tricks:
- Get the work done now and add your image as an “Alternative Image” if you want to continue using your lifestyle pictures until the deadline.
- Paint Bucket tools can change backgrounds in several programs, including Photoshop.
- Pure white 255-255-255 is the same as #FFFFFF
**The white background requirement deadline is extended to 06/30/2021**
The Handmade team has monitored your feedback and it is clear our Makers need more time to adhere to the new requirements. We appreciate the feedback and want to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Tips & Tricks:
- Get the work done now and add your image as an “Alternative Image” if you want to continue using your lifestyle pictures until the deadline.
- Paint Bucket tools can change backgrounds in several programs, including Photoshop.
- Pure white 255-255-255 is the same as #FFFFFF
41 replies
Seller_3SP5c0fPWImCr
The whole thing doesn’t make sense.
We had an email last year saying our images needed changing by August 31st 2020. We had 2 months to do it.
Any we didn’t manage to change got suppressed until we changed the picture to a white background.
Then on the forum everyone was saying it was the 31st December 2020 (or 1st Jan 2021)
When I checked other vendors who are similar to ours at the end of January none of them have had to change their pictures.
Seller_iT7zAqkV2PQG7
I have a suggestion for you…just leave things as they are.
The Handmade On Amazon section looks fantastic. Why ruin it with draconian rules on pure white backgrounds?
It ain’t broke so don’t try to fix it.
Seller_y85eShwkJ1SUS
I don’t understand, I’m a handmade seller and I still haven’t had a single email about this. I get all other emails. I would be clueless if it wasn’t for the forum.
Seller_LkPpSgD323PU5
Whilst i am really pleased the deadline has been extended again. I agree with the other sellers here it would be so much better if we can keep our different backgrounds. It makes the handmade section look fantastic and unique.
In the meantime i also think many of my listings are being supressed since end of December. Could this be because of the backgrounds?
Seller_CssBvn92een4I
I also did not even know about this extension. To be honest, my sales dropped off a cliff from the 1st January, I assumed that was due to having not changed over my photos. If it wasn’t free to have a shop and list I wouldn’t even be here anymore. Ridiculous A-Z claims, feedback manipulation, not communicating the stupid rule changes… the list is endless and no amount of complaining seems to make any difference, Amazon don’t even respond! I thought Ebay was bad, but Amazon is horrendous. By far the worst site I have ever sold on.
Seller_sFEUMUfeW5484
How about you apply this logic to the VTR metric?
Seller_d5ST1uF2EzzR8
If its of any help to anyone I used a guy on the website ‘Fiverr’ to change all my backgrounds for me, was pretty reasonable £12 per 100 and saved me the headache of working out how.
Seller_K2Vm5gIqtHhpA
I’d also like to add that both me and my friend who sell here on Amazon handmade changed to plain white backgrounds a couple of months ago when the first emails about it came out and we BOTH saw a significant drop in our sales.
We gave it time in case it was lockdown lifting etc (although we changed them all over before this point) and so we decided to change them all back a few days ago and have since already seen a significant rise in our sales again.
We both agree our products don’t look as classy and attractive on a plain white background and we feel as a result, we were losing interest and sales, even with Amazon ads turned on to try and help.
I’d much rather be excluded from any Amazon campaigns and leave my images (and sales) as they are.
I think this should be considered an option for us to opt whether we wish to be a part of these campaigns that require us to have plain white backgrounds?
Seller_quhUbIoJ7GaRt
Just as a side note, I had a Facebook advert come up for Amazon Handmade yesterday. The product image didn’t have a white background…
Seller_80IEvhvgNyc2h
Does anyone know if 30 June is still the deadline for this change or is it postponed as per the last couple of times? I really want to keep the existing images till the very end 
