alright, if you're a skinner you may have tried skinning something too soon after looting and been told you can't skin it. apparently there is some sort of delay between looting and skinning(unless it's only my computer somehow.)
a friend and i discovered a while back that if you both keep clicking to skin a creature just after looting it you will both get the leather. the chat pane will say only one person received it, but check your bags. it is possible that this was fixed as it was a few months ago that we were doing this, but i doubt it was just a one-time glitch because we did this quite often.
1: have whoever isn't able to loot just start right clicking the body as fast as they can.
2: loot the creature(use autoloot)
3: while looting keep right clicking on the body just like the other person
4: it should give the message that you both don't have permission to loot that or whatever, then you'll both start skinning and both receive leather.
i didn't test this recently so it's possible it no longer works, but if someone tests it please confirm it or flame it.