Miscellaneous: Lost armor on dye failure?

[Daywolf]

So the wiki reads on the blacksmithing page:

Take a completed piece of fine steel plate armor, place it in the forge along with 1 dye, 1 Jar of Acid, 1 Jar of Lacquer and hit combine. Once dyed, the color cannot be removed. You CAN fail on this part of the process (it's a skill check versus your smithing skill), read your combine message carefully. On a failure, the armor will be returned to you, undyed, and you lose the dye, lacquer and acid.


But what actually happened, it returned nothing. Fine plate breastplate, nothing on the mouse pointer, even relogged and checked all my bags again. Nothing on ground. Nothing inside the forge. Just gone.

Is this a bug? Or did it change on failure to destroying the armor?