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Long Island tycoon blasts 'rip-off' matchmakers after spending $65G in search of love
New York Post ^ | 10/08/2012 | Tara Palmeri

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: dating; matchmakers; tycoon
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To: SeekAndFind

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


21 posted on 10/08/2012 8:19:16 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Cyman

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 ).


22 posted on 10/08/2012 8:23:56 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: mountn man

NAD she has to be pretty


23 posted on 10/08/2012 8:25:43 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

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.


24 posted on 10/08/2012 8:25:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: SeekAndFind
James Carville: “It's not the arrow, it's the Indian.”
25 posted on 10/08/2012 8:27:06 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: carlo3b

lot of bitterness there pal


26 posted on 10/08/2012 8:27:31 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: SeekAndFind

Theres a lot of them in Nassau County where he lives.


27 posted on 10/08/2012 8:28:44 PM PDT by TsonicTsunami08
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To: SeekAndFind
What on earth are JAPS?

Jewish-American Princesses.

28 posted on 10/08/2012 8:29:17 PM PDT by luvbach1 (Stop the destruction in 2012 or continue the decline)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jewish American Princesses.


29 posted on 10/08/2012 8:29:34 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Nifster

Kind of like Jeremiah Wright was able to arrange a marriage for Michelle?


30 posted on 10/08/2012 8:33:05 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows
He called VIP Life’s Lisa Clampitt’s women “West Village girls” who were too “artsy.”

A man can only come up with so many excuses not to go with his wife to see The Vagina Monologues.

31 posted on 10/08/2012 8:36:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama likes to claim credit for getting Osama. Why hasn't he tried Khalid Sheikh Mohammed yet?)
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To: SeekAndFind
" high-end matchmaking services "

That's his first mistake right there.... HIGH END matching service.
Sorry ladies, it's true, those women who would be members of that high end matching service will no doubt will be Gold diggers.
Did he say that they have to agree to a prenuptial before marriage ? and they said... Nyet ?
32 posted on 10/08/2012 8:37:51 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Nifster

But candid in his honesty.


33 posted on 10/08/2012 8:39:06 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: SeekAndFind; a fool in paradise
“I don’t want to take his money,” Spindel said.

Oh sure, Ms Spindel.

34 posted on 10/08/2012 8:41:32 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jewish American Princess


35 posted on 10/08/2012 8:43:09 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: SeekAndFind; a fool in paradise
Maybe Larry needs to take a look at the real Japs?!


36 posted on 10/08/2012 8:44:50 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: Jonty30
The guy doesn’t want a wife. He wants an accessory that will service him at night.

CORRECTION:

The A guy doesn’t want a wife. He wants an accessory that will service him at night.

37 posted on 10/08/2012 8:47:56 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


38 posted on 10/08/2012 8:48:17 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Rembrandt

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.

______________

The man is Jewish and wants to marry a Jewish lady.

Hey, maybe a nice Thai lady would want to convert...


39 posted on 10/08/2012 8:51:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (bOTRT)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


40 posted on 10/08/2012 8:52:07 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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