Just wanted to share my experience with an encounter I just had happen. A wood elf comes up to me and is wondering if I want to buy skooma or tree sap or something. My character plays a wood elf so this is pretty cool. Now what is he wearing? A ragged tunic and pants BUT with ebony gauntlets. Just gauntlets.

well whenever i find these drug dealers a happily give them the fist of justice right into there faces

Sounds like this wood elf has connections if he found a way to get ebony armor and be poor.

Eh I normally kill them when I see them and then proceed to loot their bodies and then I keep walking.