Posted on 10/08/2012 7:18:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Money really can’t buy you love — just ask this picky multimillionaire on Long Island.
Lonely securities trader Larry Greenfield, 47, has plunked down more than $65,000 on high-end matchmaking services — all in the hopes of finding his ideal wife.
After trying six different agencies over the past 12 years — and seeing 250 women — without success, the bachelor is blasting the expensive dating services as a “rip-off.”
But the matchmakers are firing back, saying Greenfield wants women who are simply out of his league.
Greenfield, who retired after a successful career at Opus Trading in Jericho, Long Island, says he would gladly trade his riches in exchange for finding a woman who meets his exacting standards: beautiful, thin, smart, Jewish, a sense of humor and from New York — but not an “alpha.”
“New York is a tough market for a guy like me. I thought I get the career, then I find the woman,” Greenfield told The Post.
“I’d trade it all in for a white picket fence, two kids, a dog. And you can have it all! I’d take a $50,000-a-year job, work until I retire.”
“I’m not a bad guy. I haven’t been to prison,” he said. “It’s just a very frustrating thing.”
As for the Manhattan matchmakers — who charge about $10,000 per year — Greenfield said: “You pay them up front and they don’t provide a service. They tell you how wonderful you are, whatever you want to hear.”
He complained when Barbie Adler, a matchmaker at Selective Search, set him up with a Knicks dancer.
“Do I seem like the New-York-City-dancer type of guy?” he scoffed.
He called VIP Life’s Lisa Clampitt’s women “West Village girls” who were too “artsy.”
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well after 250 women who did not meet his approval maybe it is him and not the gals. Maybe this is the dude who has to have an arranged marriage because otherwise he will be old and bitter and single
RE: There are a gazillion JAPS out there
I’m a little lost with the acronyms.
What on earth are JAPS? ( I don’t think you mean Japanese ).
NAD she has to be pretty
Using a marriage service is not necessarily a sign of desperation. It’s often used by rich people to screen for desirable traits and screen out the gold diggers.
But yeah, to not find even one person close when you have dated 250 women is probably indicative of him being the problem, not them.
lot of bitterness there pal
Theres a lot of them in Nassau County where he lives.
Jewish-American Princesses.
Jewish American Princesses.
Kind of like Jeremiah Wright was able to arrange a marriage for Michelle?
A man can only come up with so many excuses not to go with his wife to see The Vagina Monologues.
But candid in his honesty.
Oh sure, Ms Spindel.
Jewish American Princess
CORRECTION:
The A guy doesn’t want a wife. He wants an accessory that will service him at night.
Really Larry, go to Bangkok, Pat Pong Street. It will cost you a lot less and you can “interview” 30 girls in 30 days for a very nominal sum.
RE: Really Larry, go to Bangkok, Pat Pong Street. It will cost you a lot less and you can “interview” 30 girls in 30 days for a very nominal sum.
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The man is Jewish and wants to marry a Jewish lady.
Hey, maybe a nice Thai lady would want to convert...
I find it hard not to sympathize with the guy.
But matchmaking services are the pits.
And their dissing the dude just shows what they are.
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