Oh. My. God. Insane in the membrane!

Come on, Hilary - Every single Jewish guy subscribes to the SJWWWTHBWM (Single Jewish Women Who Want To Have Babies With Mensans) mailing list. Why should this postcard be a surprise?

That said, he looks like excellent shofar player. I betcha he can really belt out that Tekiah Gedolah. And you know what that means….

My friend got the exact same card

creeeeeeeeeepy!

Yeah, what Joel said. And hilary-with-a-lower-case-h, too.

I so dare you to call him

JDate is selling your info?

CREEPY AND SCARY….MAYBE HE KNOWS SOMEBODY FROM AISH HA’TORAH THAT SPONSORS SPEED DATING…..LOOKS LIKE HE COULD KNOW SOMEONE THERE!!!
SPOOKY!!!!

I LOVE YOU, STAY SAFE

mom

Mmm, this is where a little knowledge of the mail & mass marketing biz would come in handy. They don’t need to know much about you to make good predictive ‘guesses’ over your status and likelihood of being a good prospect for the service or product sought. They’ve got much better at this over the last decade or so. They can sort your zip code (and much smaller blocs) by age, household composition, and yes, marriage status and of course by last name from postal records. They start with the Census data and then add on any other data bases they need. Some of these can be driver’s license records in some states too. So depending on what you want to spend, you can find almost anything about anyone, or any population you’re targeting. Income levels are a bit trickier, but you can get very close by sorting by neighborhood.

I’ve not checked out his site, but suffice it to say we can suspect that:

1.) He’s spent a lifetime of Jdate memberships on this gambit. Figure at least 15-20K at the outset. Stacey might have some more insights on this too.

2.) Of course this guy’s seriously desperate, pressed for time, and may be amply funded in this effort by a desperate momma and/or family .

3.) Of course this could very well be some sick ‘Reality TV’ stunt, and they’re waiting to catch a suitable population of ‘targets’ in their clutches before announcing their production schedule and game format.

4.) It goes without saying that we can imagine that he has the personality of an elderly eggplant, and may be as we say down south ‘as ugly as home made sin’. Why else does he neglect His photo over the generic blonde kid?

5.) This is done every day in IVF procedures, typically with college age women selling their eggs to couples who DO advertise successfully in many college newspapers. And yes, there are ‘brokers’ for such arrangements. It’s just when a guy does it that we get all weak in the knees. My thought is that next time he’ll get his sister or a friend to claim that they’re an infertile couple and have a bit more chance of success.

Cheers, ‘VJ’, ga.

So does he want marriage or just unprotected sex? Scary…

OK Out of sheer curoisity, I did what others need not. I visited his site, (DP’s). His press clippings for his music biz speak of a ‘Quirky, Perky Perkins’. He really is Jewish. He’s quite conservative politically and a multi instrumentalist. Like much of the rest of the world, he has a web design business. He also does kids parties, weddings and other festivals. Balloon animals abound. He’s quite gregarious, seems to be reasonably successful in his various ventures, and for certain is a highly unusual guy. He’s probably in his late 40’s to early 60’s by now. (It’s actually very hard to tell!). Balding w/ glasses. He might even be good with kids too. Women, perhaps less so. There’s my summary kids. Cheers, ‘VJ’

Update from the last query: He says in an older clipping that ‘he’d like to be married, but his courting sucks’. Prior gambits along this line were ads he took out in the Jerusalem Post. Several (35!?) anti Rabin ads, and a few ‘looking for a wife’ ads. He said everyone remembered the looking for a wife ads. They must have been pretty bad too. And no, he looks nothing like the picture of the baby either. So I also think it’s doubtful this is a reality TV stunt. Just another semi accomplished, very lonely, very clueless guy. I’m betting he might even be a hit on Jdate, but that he’s never tried it. Cheers, ‘VJ’, ga.

I have two friends who got the same postcard and are trying to figure out how this guy got their info. They don’t think it is JDate, but rather perhaps Aish? If anyone knows or has a good lead on where this guy got his info from, please let us know so we can shut this down ASAP! Thanks.

Holy crapola. JDaters Anonymous will help you in this quest. And shouldn’t Mensan be capitalized? (Maybe not, I don’t know, it’s not like I’m a member.)

YIPES! That’s just wrong. If AISH somehow “leaked” your info, and other’s , I’d so be following up with this. Sigh…I’m baffled, it’s just so odd.

I’ve known David Perkins for many years. He was one of the first people I met when I came to Israel in 1992. As a performer, I got to know him because he was part of the Jerusalem scene. We did some gigs together and he also played at my wedding (he was fantastic). He can play jazz on a shofar which is amazing. I’ll vouch for what he wrote on his card and his website. Other than being a bit eccentric, I’d say he’s brilliant, honest, and very talented. I wish him success finding a mate.

-Scott

Scott: …a bit eccentric? Come on, I’d say it is more than a bit eccentric for the guy to get the private addresses of loads of single women and send them a postcard basically telling them their biological clocks are ready to stop ticking. Rude and an invastion of privacy I would say!

Well I suspected that someone would follow up on the track backs and come here directly to comment about the man. Again from my first post, there’s probably nothing illegal about what he did. This is mass marketing people, and it probably can be done for a whole lot cheaper than the prices I quoted, (which are more than a decade old). There are people who sell & rent these databases for a living and for businesses every day. So ask not how he did it, that’s pretty obvious, pathetic though it may be. The real question is why he thinks this is the best way of going about his goals, and why his goals (other than a child), are seemingly not all included or stated in the ‘package’. I also find nothing about this current venture spelled out on his website.

I think despite what Scott says he can vouch for, there are plenty of ‘brilliant, honest & talented people’ who find relationships with women & indeed marriage difficult, which again is something DP openly admits to. It’s a very unusual approach to ‘baby making’, and it’s another gambit ‘wild enough’ & almost well crafted to get him some more media attention as an ‘eccentric’. That’s something that he clearly something he prizes though, to tell from his past experiences. I know very few people who would describe themselves as ’spiritual giants’ though. I hope this helps someone. Cheers, ‘VJ’ ga.

Too much Port before bedtime. That last bit above in the last paragraph should read: ‘That’s something that he clearly prizes though, to tell from his past experiences.’ I predict we see him on some TV show before the month is out. Best money he’s probably spent in years. Cheers, ‘VJ’ ga.

icky.

A few thought come to mind (other than EEK!)-

He could just buy a Russian bride.

Impregnation fetishist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impregnation_fetish)

I wonder if he wants to actually be a father or just spread his seed? (Will be be a daddy or a baby-daddy?)

He’d probably get better responses if he offered something in return- cash, marriage, housing, etc….

I am a blogger who received the exact same card in the mail! I wrote about it on my blog (www.thedailyrandi.blogspot.com) and a reader alerted me to the fact that you wrote about it, too. My guess is that J-Date sold our addresses. I don’t have any other affiliation with Jewish organizations here in Los Angeles besides them. So, what the F??!! Boo, J-Date!

Greetings,
It is so nice to see all of your responses. A friend just pointed this out to me. If you really want information about the various questions you ask then by all means give me a call. My telephone number is on the card. I mailed to about 4,000 single Jewish women between the ages of 20 and 50 in Santa Monica and within 10 miles. The mailing list was a publicly accessible commercial database. There is no mention of sex on the card. This was an effective direct mailing to my target population. Why do you seem so surprised?

Ohmygod, Hilary….Why is this man reading Our Blogs?????

I would Complain, but it is through “David” and his Insane Mailing Campaign that I found Your Blog and eventually, The Man I Hope Will Be The Actual “Sperm Donor” for My Future Family, so well, Okay Then.

I still think “David” is An Ass.