If the OP can't raise $15 between his extended family and his wife's extended family, not to mention all their friends, they really have no business running a website.
What's going to happen if one of them breaks a shoelace and has to buy a new one? Will shipments be delayed?
Again, we may sound harsh but we have to stand together if we come across these types of threads to prevent people for falling for such obvious tactics. I'm not accusing the OP just yet, the jury is out, but it all points to guilty considering how it went so far.