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Scandinavian traveler
The risk of something going wrong is generally quite low and if it did, you'd hopefully have travel insurance to cover any non-refundable hotels.
If the OTA went bankrupt, a chargeback would refund the entire amount so not really sure I see the big risk on a standard return trip. If it was a multi-city itinerary with travel dates far in the future I'd agree, but on a short notice straightforward return booking I would not hesitate.
I’ve made this point before, but your conditions of sale with an OTA are not the same as with an airline. If they decide a ticket is nonrefundable without a service charge, that’s how it is, and you don’t have chargeback protection.
this is such a large differential it would set alarm bells ringing. What’s the saying about something seeming too good to be true?
most likely it’ll either get ticketed or fail to get ticketed and a refund generated. In other words it’s probably ok. Just saying I wouldn’t take it (but I wouldn’t pay £4k for F either lol)