User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Alternative to becoming a Vampire lord/@comment-4057437-20120629150943

If your Dragonborn has no money, spend a little time collecting ingredients and mix up some potions. While you are at it, enchant some apparal with Fortify Alchemy, (Chain, Circlet, Gauntlets/Gloves, Ring and Falmer Helmet), to boost the value of the potions. One can go into an alchemy shop, buy all the ingredients in stock, use the alchemy workstation in the store and sell the product for a tidy profit. We always have potions left over to sell to General merchandise merchants such as Belethor. We end up being able to buy everything he has we want, (lockpicks, soul gems, etc.), and get all his gold with potions left over.