Exclusive | $200K for a date? Thats just the price of true love, say NYCs top matchmakers

Ask any fed-up single what the NYC dating scene is like today, and you’ll most likely get the same response — it’s chaotic, messy and the apps are a drag.No one wants to commit.Hookup culture is at full speed.

And ghosting is at an all-time high.As a result, desperate Big Apple singles are seeking alternatives in their city-wide search for love and placing their trust — and considerable funds — into the hands of professional matchmakers.Elliot, a Big Apple-based former attorney turned house-flipper, made a promise to himself that if he were still single by his 40th birthday, he would succumb to handing his love life over to a professional matchmaker.After interviewing with three different high-end matchmaking services in late 2020 and early 2021, the now 45-year-old signed up to be a part of the free matchmaking database of London-founded agency Maclynn (formerly the Vida Consultancy) to be placed in the agency’s complimentary pool of potential daters, and met with Carly Spindel, half of NYC’s Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking mother-daughter team. Though Elliot, who preferred to go by his first name, was initially “more than willing” to pay the hefty $25,000 fee for a starting contract at the time, he quickly realized the service was “everything I didn’t want.”“She [Carly] was happy to tell me she had a Rolodex of girls with all their pictures and that before she sets them up on a date, if she meets with them in winter, she has them take their jacket off and do a little twirl,” the Upper East Sider told The Post.

“I was like, okay, if you can’t get enough from a basic picture and that’s your sales pitch — really not much else — that’s not what I was looking for.”Elliot instead signed on with Three Day Rule — an LA-founded luxe service where singles get paired with a personal matchmaker and coach to match them with a potential suitor based on goals, values and lifestyles, costing around $20,000 for VIP membership, with ...