Originally Posted by chollie

This is always the risk with booking any non-refundable fare. The good news is that at worst you lose a fraction of what you'd be losing if you had paid a normal non-refundable fare.

If you're booking only because of the mistake price, well, that's still the risk you face. Almost by definition, fare mistakes mean we book in haste - and hopefully don't regret at leisure.

FWIW, I have two itineraries scheduled almost back-to-back. I return from one and am scheduled to depart 8 hours later on the next one. If the first one is delayed, I have no idea what will happen to the second one. I will be overseas and not in a good position to find someone who can process an SDC (complicated by the fact that it's a 3-leg itinerary). It happens.

Edited to add: I don't want to sound unsympathetic. I hope it works out for you, but this is a risk we all take when we book any non-refundable fare, full or mistake price. We just generally don't give it much thought when booking fares paid out of our own pockets. I suspect there are very few leisure travelers here who regularly buy fully refundable fares on their own dime.