Dicax wrote

ElderScrolls wrote The chest is basically the inventory of the specific merchant. Almost every shop has a chest under which basically holds the shop keepers stuff.
This is because the developers didn't want the player to kill the merchant and loot all of his stuff so they put it underground so the players can't get to the items without using cheat codes of course.

You're not completely correct because the chest you're thinking of would be accessible this chest seems to be picked up like an item.

I, for one, think this is completely untrue. To get the chest, you have to trade the person and it will be in their inventory. It is not underground. Not to be rude, but your explanation seems completely fictional.[/quote]

And actually there are chests under every merchant to set his inventory even on console it's set up that way.[/color]