Okay guys, please give me some answers. I posted this earlier but nobody thought to help me? So here we go for a second round. So from my understanding, my thief character is not able to be a complete thief? In previous games, you always had the option of cleaning a store completely. I understand some aspects of not being able to loot completely. But as a thief myself, and not really wishing to pay the insane amount of money for the ingots basically, i want to steal them. But i can't. is this true or just a glitch?

It would seem that not all items that are found in a shop is what the merchant has to offer as well as not all the merchant has for sale can be found in the shop.

I think it would have been better had their been a master locked chest containing the rest of what they have for sale. With the key on the person but with a high difficulty to pickpocket.

Also, stealing a merchant's merchandise too often would result in the shop becoming empty (but should be back up and running by someone else in an in game month to one year) and the merchant is now homeless on the streets or simply gone completely.