No they didn't. Like I said, when I collared them the day afterwards and the kid who I'm pretty sure did it was filling his pants, he offered repeatedly to get me the money back. There was no way I was going to say yes - it would amounted to threatening two kids out of money on a public street.
The distributors were profusely apologising and said there was nothing they could do about loss of money - I never once asked for any sum of money back, it's not worth the hassle over such a paltry amount, so I had no problem with what they were saying. I was more affronted by the principle of the matter.