Where can I get Thieves' Guild armour?

When someone gives me armour that I don't want, I sell it. So I sold my Thieves' Guild armour, and now the fence wants to upgrade my armour and I can't sell anything to her until she does.

Where can I buy more Thieves' Guild armour?

Update: Getting the armor from qasmoke didn't work. It's been many in-game days and whoever I sold the armor to has had their inventory reset.

4 Answers

Thanks to a useful post on Yahoo! Answers, I realized there's actually three sets of Thieves Guild Armor you can spawn through the console, and the UESP is listing the wrong one. The ones you want are as follow:

player.additem 000d3ac2 1 player.additem 000d3ac3 1 player.additem 000d3ac4 1 player.additem 000d3ac5 1 

I've just confirmed it working. The ones the UESP list aren't visible in inventory view (they do show up in the world, though). I suspect they're meant for NPCs, since many NPCs carry invisible-from-inventory armor. Being different armor, it won't work with Tonilia's quest.

For completeness's sake:

00036584 - Armor, NPC version 000d3ac3 - Armor, Basic version 000d3acc - Armor, Upgraded version 00036583 - Boots, NPC 000d3ac2 - Boots, Basic 000d3acb - Boots, Upgraded 00042be9 - Glove, NPC 000d3ac4 - Glove, Basic 000d3acd - Glove, Upgraded 00036585 - Hood, NPC 000d3ac5 - Hood, Basic 000d3ace - Hood, Upgraded 

You have to buy it back from the person you sold it to.

As of patch 1.4, there is a respawning set of thieves guild armor in the Ragged flagon back room.

So patch the game, do not enter the thieves guild for a while. (I think it is 10 ingame days). Then the map respawns, and you can get your spare set of guild armor.

They added this specifically to counter this bug you have encountered.

You can also get it from the QA "smoke test" room.

Go into console (always the button under ESC, at the far left of your keyboard, regardless of what layout you use) and type:

coc qasmoke 

Close the console (same key again) and go to the "All Standard Armour" chest. Find the armor you want (e.g. Thieves Guild Armour) and loot it. Once you have what you want, open the console again and type:

coc whiterun 

Then you can fast travel to the Thieves Guild and hand in.