This has happened a couple of times now. I buy something from Reda in Ravensthorpe and it sort-of doesn't show up. Today it was the Steel-Wrought Bow. I got it, the opals went away, I looked at it in the inventory to find out if it's Bear, Raven or Wolf (Wolf, not that it matters to me), it was there, the "new" icon went away. Okay, off to Svartalheim. Uhh . . . where's the bow? Back from Svartalfheim. Hmm . . . still no bow. Did I get the opal back? Hmm . . . no. Reload a save. Umm . . . no bow. I restarted the Xbox and it was there so maybe that helped.
This is a bit new. It's sort-of similar for the free item. Takes ages to show up, usually after a restart. Then there's the business where items don't necessarily appear in Reda's Rubbish at all, documented elsewhere. And of course that's on top of Reda's Rubbish being so, well, rubbish (though it's perhaps not quite as rubbish as a month or two ago - but it's still rubbish).
Are you guys at Ubisoft going to leave it like this?