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Tags: <the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim>
Title: In Skyrim, what is the point of placing items into other people's inventories (reverse pick-pocketing)?
Question: So in pick-pocketing, you have the option to steal from somebody's inventory, and/or place something into it. Outside of leveling exploits and quests, what function does placing actually have? Can you use for stealth kills or something?

Answers:
sents: text: Another lesser known use for reverse pickpocketing is to remove the stolen flag from items.
text: If you reverse pickpocket a stolen item onto someone and kill them it will no longer be considered stolen.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/3917/l I
score: 186
sents: text: Yes, you can poison people by placing poison into their inventory.
text: Reverse pickpocketing a poison using the Poisoned perk does not count as a crime, even if the magical effect of the poison (e.g. "damage health") would otherwise be considered a criminal act if applied any other way.
text: This makes it entirely possible to kill or weaken innocent enemies, right in front of everyone, without incurring a bounty (unless you get caught, as noted @Kevin).
text: Also, reverse pickpocketing a paralysing poison into your target's inventory and then pickpocketing them as soon as the effect starts to wear off
text: allows you to take any item without being caught, no matter the chance of success.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/117670/Exerion
score: 150
sents: text: If you reverse pickpocket fancy arrows onto an archer (and take his lousy arrows) who regularly practices his archery, you can get an endless supply of that type of arrow from his archery target whenever he practices.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/149000/rrauenza
score: 125
sents: text: If you reverse-pickpocket equippable items, the NPC may equip them.
text: This is useful if you have an unarmed follower who refuses to trade with you, like Maurice Jondrelle , who appears in the Blessings of Nature quest.
text: If you reverse-pickpocket a sword and some armor to him, he has a better chance of surviving the quest.
text: For that particular NPC, the Elder Scrolls Wiki says that you have to reverse-pickpocket him before you talk to him for the first time, or it won’t work.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/124642/Lord Harkon
score: 61
sents: text: You can use this to drop poison into their pockets and stealthy kill/damage them, but only if you have the poisoned perk in the pickpocket perk tree.
text: see here for a description of the perk
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/127901/Dragonrage
score: 24
sents: text: I would like to stress upon the "pickpocketing someone while the paralysis effect has just been weared off for anything(as mentioned by @Exerion)" a bit more: Since Alchemy is quite hard to level up.
text: Whenever my player levelled up, I used to go to an Alchemy trainer, train 5 levels, and steal the money.
text: But, as my level grew in Alchemy, the chances of stealing large amounts became 0 no matter what i did(tried all sorts of potions and stuff).
text: And then I thought of an IDEA.
text: I put a paralysis potion in the trainer's pocket and as soon as the stealing option became enabled, I stole my money back successfully.
text: Also levelled up other skills like Archery, Enchanting, Smithing etc the same way.
text: It saved me a fortune(hundreds of thousands).
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/149089/Sarthak Mittal
score: 16
sents: text: Sometimes it is an optional way to complete some missions, like the Quest where you have to put the ring in the guys pocket
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/217988/Pantheroro
score: 0
sents: text: If you reverse pickpocket gold onto a merchant immediately after investing in them, you can increase the investment permanently.
text: There seems to be a 16 bit limit in place where raising a merchant's gold much past 32,500 will cause it to freeze.
text: You can sell items, but won't receive gold in return.
text: Also, it may be wise to reverse pickpocket multiple smaller amounts
text: so you are less likely to get caught.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/181987/Jtenorj3
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
A use of reverse pickpocketing is to remove the stolen flag from items. You can reverse pickpocket gold onto a merchant immediately after investing in them. Sometimes it is an optional way to complete some missions.
Reverse pick pocketing can help a player in many ways such as placing poisons into an enemy's inventory, in order to get affected by that.