AZ, I will reread the posts after I get straight answers to simple questions.
Is this a community tax of some sort or individuals paying?
Do you think that either or both of the scenarios are possible:
– fewer third dates because the parties are apprehensive (and the girls would rather save the money that they are apparently raking in for their life in kollel)?
– more third dates due to if not unscrupulous shadchanim shadchanim who now have negios due to this radical proposal?
Each side pays 75?
And a new one: the real estate analogy is an interesting one. (And nimshal to the luxury realtors are those who go for 10K.) Is that the sole basis for the arbitrary numbers of 150, etc? Because there is a world outside certain big cities that can’t relate to that.