I never noticed this before, but after robbing Belethor I was able to sell his items back to him, which confused me. I reloaded previous saves to test things out and it came to be after giving Ysolda the mammoth tusk, it removed the stolen tag. So I reloaded the save to try again without talking to her and: 1) Leveling up my Speech did not remove the stolen tag. 2) Talking to Belethor and buying from him to increase likeness did not remove the tag. I checked inventory immediately before and after talking to Ysolda and giving her the mammoth tusk and it removed the stolen tag (since her reward is increasing speech for bartering). Question is: bug? or hidden feature that wasn't talked about? If anyone could test this that would be great.
