I’ve also had my own fair share of gambling losses due to relying too much on punters and other people’s predictions, and that’s why I had to stop it. Yes that strategy might be working for them, but I realized that it doesn’t guarantee that it’ll also work for me, and that made me realize that the best solution was to come up with my own personal strategy, whether I win more often or less, what matters more is that I’m doing it my own way and I’ve calculated the risks carefully before making my bets.
That might work for some time but it's not going to be a payday always. That's why there is a reason why we shouldn't be too reliant on these punters whether they are friends or families. Unless you're okay to go down and take losses with them, that's up to you. But if you don't want to be dragged down if they're also dragged down by their losses, it only means that you need to stand up and choose the better path of being reliant only to your calls and shots with your bets.
If you are paying for something, you would expect that you will get the best maximum results but if you are just going to lose then maybe it would have been better had you just made the bet yourself and lost on your own. Now not only did you just lose money on the bet but you also wasted your money paying for someone else's prediction.
Since you are not analyzing someone else's prediction anyway and you are just hoping the seller of the predictions get lucky why not just test out your luck yourself? lol You may have better chances betting randomly yourself than paying for a bet.