I am now officially declaring, that in Popa’s view:
………….. “This Idea Is Retarded*”……………..
For two reasons:
Firstly, it is crazy for these couple of nuts from queens to set the baseline by which all shadchanim will now expect to get paid. (As one of my friends told me- “I have a 30 year old sister; does this mean every shadchan will now ask her if she is signed up with this for 13k?”)
I want to know: Just who gave you permission to do this? Just who allowed you to change the way shadchanim will expect to be compensated?
Secondly, while you rightly point out that 13k is not a lot to pay to get married, and people do spend more than that on a wedding, you are asking people to put up the money without knowing whether it will be years before they get married. These are large sums of money, most of us don’t have it lying around. I can’t imagine very many people will join this.
*I use the term retarded, because I am personally acquainted with some fools, idiots, dolts, stupidheads, morons, knuckleheads, shnooks, and fat people, and I would not want to use their condition as a pejorative.