Or is 10,000 the amount he is scripted to have after investing?

Well known bug. They said they wouldn't patch out glitches that were 'fun', so I guess that's staying.

Riverwood Trader is the best IMO. Hes the only vender i can find that will let me sell anything in my inventory to him. Even dragon bones... Well maybe beth in whiterun too., but i want to buy a house in riverwood and be jarl with my mansion i want bethesada to make me.

I have a questiin though i start a new thread for it.

I don't think it's a bug. It's just some thing they added. Just like in The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind with the Scamp(5000k) and the Talking Mudcrab(10,000k).

Didn't Carlotta say, he's a tricky one...

I thought you were going to say he was bugged because he says the same 2 lines over and over again. I married his sister and after the wedding we had a little talk outside. He thanked me for taking care of those thieves. I'm pretty sure that's the line. I stopped listening to him a LONG time ago.

It seems that as long as you don't finish the Golden Claw he'll stay behind the counter forever

i've finished that quest and he still is behind the counter selling stuff or are you trying to say something else?

After the claw is returned he adopts more of a schedule (i.e. closing up shop, going to the inn, sleeping, etc) rather than standing right there 24/7.

Oh i see, i guess i didn't notice that as i did that quest immediately when I got to riverwood on my Skyrim LP on my channel.

He's supposed to get 500 like everyone else, but something is causing the script to run 20 times rather than once when he triggers it. I've thoroughly dug into the relevant script, the merchant quest*, and his dialogue tree, and can't see anything in any of them that would point to the problem.



*The game runs a quest in the background that handles things like investing, so that they only need one for all the merchants rather than one for each.

I love this. He's my "cash cow". I invested in his store early on and now he has almost 12k for me everytime I go into his store, and believe me, I use it to my advantage. There's nothing like being able to sell ALL of my improved weapons and potions as I accrue them. The last batch of potions I created, I sold for over 800,000 septims. It's kind of fun walking around with "flash" money and a thief trying to rob you for all your money. I'm like, " I don't think so, Scooter"!!

I swore this was an Easter Egg towards the Mudcrab merchant or was it the other animal merchant.

It's definitely a bug but it's one of the few good ones.