Then apparently I've never heard of the "just sneak out method." How exactly does it work? You just put on a stealth suit and leave? Then again I'm not usually the stealth type character anyway.
What I did was place the bars in the area where the force-fields come up before Elijah arrives. Then I talked to him, fought him, killed him, and then grabbed the bars via glitch through the force-field (they were located on the very edge of it) and then just made my merry way out. That would be a glitch method. Apparently that's not the easiest way though.
Perhaps the sneak method or whatever is intended as a sort of joke/ironic method to bypass the DLC's concept. However the fact of the matter is that Dead Money is centered around the idea of "letting go." Part of the hard choice at the end is learning to just give up that money and live. If you don't they you don't leave the Sierre Madre. Hence its called "Dead Money". At least that's what they were going for. Just leaving with all the money means that the player character apparently learned nothing from the storyline and spit in the DLC's metaphorical face (which while funny, is also cheap IMO).
"Its not finding the Sierre Madre thats the hard part, its letting go."
Can't sneak out with it. There are a couple of spots where you need to jump, and you can't jump when you are overencumbered.
Its not finding the Sierre Madre thats the hard part, its letting go... of the fact that you can carry 37 10-oz. golden bars simply because they weight too much. I mean, come on! Back in my day we use to carry 90 pound haybales to the back of my father's truck, and... sh1t, you don't what a truck is, do you? you probably have no idea what a haybale is either. I am just going to walk out the door. Find someone else to narrate your d@mn story, you living-impaired Courier...