Ultimate Warrior had My Custom Removed from Ebay

unfortunately that was not what i was talking about either. Putting a paid of sunglasses inside a already paid for louie purse is perfectly legal because you bought them from the real company and are reselling them. If you take a purse and slap on the trademarked logos you dont own and say its that louie purse that is illegal, and that is like what he is doing with said custom figure here.
If he bought another Warrior, and didnt customize it and sold it as is on ebay with another figure, that would be perfectly fine because you own that Warrior figure, thats how it was made and you are just reselling it as you own it already. Now, when you take said figure and start painting it to look like another extremely rare figure (USA 1/5 Warrior) but change a few things then go to sell it on ebay to look like that said rare USA warrior figure but its not. Thats counterfeiting/ bootlegging/ copywrite infringing.
He would be better off to just stay away from warrior customs altogether before he ends up $250,000 or more in the hole and ends up in prison for the next 5 years. Just make other guys and dont try to play with fire.

Yes but the difference is the original object was a warrior product and the added product was a warrior product. Can you not advertise what your product is made with?

Take Andy Warhol as an example. He took a photograph of a Campbell's Soup Can, colored over it and it is considered pop art and is worth a bundle today and yet Campbell's doesn't continue to make money each time that original work of art is sold. As a matter of fact Campbell's only gained interest in working out a deal long after Warhol had died when The Andy Warhol Foundation decided to make licensing agreements for the image. Yet Campbell's doesn't make money after the the products with the image are sold on the secondary market past the point of the initial sale. Campbell's isn't going to make money a second time if that print gets sold at a flea market or on eBay whether they keep it as the original print or that take that print and cut it out and make coke bottle earrings with it.

Hey, just because someone didn't ask for money for something doesn't mean they didn't have a legal claim to it. A lot of times companies will not pursue people who use their trademarks. For one, maybe Campbell's thought it was good advertising. Maybe they thought it was cool. We don't know what they thought, but that doesn't change the fact that it was their intellectual property in that painting. Just because THEY let it slide for whatever reason doesn't mean Warrior has to let it slide.

You can find thousands of examples of companies letting others profit off their trademarks. But the key word there is "letting." Just because Warrior exercised his right to NOT let someone use it doesn't make him a bad person.

Why to kick him? That isn't the point. I believe that an understanding can be reached in a polite and respectful fashion. The Warrior has done nothing wrong by attempting to protect what he views as his protected property. I mean this isn't some let's all bash Warrior and gang up on him sort of thing. This is a serious legal matter that involves everyone in the collecting community and should be treated as such.

Here here! I think this dialog we are having is fun and challenging, and it pertains to a number of people who make their own customs. It's testament to Apoc that Warrior thought enough of his work to shut it down. The custom looks factory made, and that's the problem.