I lost few bets  this  way some times ago. I paid  but  there are times when I regret. I suspect that if it would be other way around some of those people would only laugh at me,at that time they thought probably  that I am kind of easy mark, I saw this but I paid. Your situation reminded my this feeling, now I would probably not fulfill such obligation because of sour taste of memories.

and there is one other thing now we can trace your transaction back don't we?