You got a bad group, because most people are kind of cheery when there's a bonus, makes it a little more useful. So, you shouldnt even have had to say that you were no, they saw the binus message, and if they saw you 2 struggling and didn't help, you really did just get a bad run. Everybody is so over geared that 1 or 2 people from every alliance could be dead and it would still be easy.

Just the other day, I did a no job/naked run, only wearing shoes. It was still easy, although we couldn't burn like normal.