Villagers asking me to pay for items I don't have on me

[White Hair]

I walk into a village and collect some items I want to trade for. I was in the process of cooking when they demanded that I pay for the goods. I know there's a hidden relations mechanic and that I probably pissed off the village. So I close the client and try to fix this. When I appear in the village, however, the villagers still demand that I pay for the items even though I no longer have them on my person. If I pick the items up and try to trade, they seem to think I have two of each item, so I have to pay double.

[Sami]

What kind of items you picked? Were they for example containers which you used or handled in some way? That's one thing that surely mixes things up.
It's always super hard to say afterwards what's was the case, or how to remedy it, because we don't know the exact steps what was done with the unpaid items. 
But trying to solve is something we can, so I could also check out the savegame if you e-mail it. Maybe that shines a little light.

[Ara D.]

Not sure how it works but zooming in or out is not a true save. My best guess is some where there is data in you character's file that says you have X item to the villagers but not the corresponding data that you need to actually have that item. I've seen similar things from game crashes or alt ctlr dlt my game. For example i encounter a bear it kills my bull so I close UrW to try again and I reload where I zoomed in with a dead Bull. Another time I killed an elk the game crashed shortly after and I reload in where I zoomed in only the elk is one wounded to the point on near death.