Dating spreadsheet: Romanian beauty speaks out about banker’s dating spreadsheet

By
Kristie Lau and Lydia Warren

17:33 EST, 19 April 2012

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17:42 EST, 19 April 2012

A woman noted as ‘beautiful… but old BF may be back in the picture’ on a dating spreadsheet an investment banker compiled to distinguish between the eight women he was dating has said the line was a brush-off as she was just not that interested.

David Merkur, a 28-year-old New Yorker, used the Microsoft Excel tool to record details of
each of the women’s characteristics as well as progress reports on how
his dates with them went. When he forwarded it to one of the women he was dating, she sent it to friends – and it went viral.

Even though he failed to remove the names or telephone numbers for each of the women detailed in the spreadsheet, one has now defended him as a ‘really nice guy’, and says she does not blame him for wanting to be organised about his dating life.

Lilana Beidaut

Lilana Beidaut

Flattered: Investment banker David Merkur created a spreadsheet to keep up with the eight women he had met through dating website Match.com. He gave one of the women, 26-year-old Liliana Beidaut (pictured), a 9.5 for appearance, adding she ‘looks beautiful’ – but she has admitted she was not interested

Lilana Beidaut, whom he met on
Match.com, was awarded Merkur’s highest score for appearance – a 9.5 out
of 10 – on the absurd document. He added she ‘looks beautiful; from
coastal Romania; Chanel make-up artist’ but noted that ‘Old BF may be
back in the picture’.

Speaking to MailOnline, Beidaut admitted: ‘This is what I tell men when I’m not interested.’

The
26-year-old, who never met Merkur in person, insisted it was nothing he
had done wrong, but she was simply too busy to continue messaging him.
Although she said Match.com was a ‘serious company’, she said she did
not need it to meet men, and her interest in the site had dwindled.

But she said she did not blame Merkur
– whom she described as ‘a really nice guy who wanted to get serious
about a girl’ – for creating the spreadsheet.

‘He’s a smart guy and he want to keep
track of everything,’ she said. ‘He wanted to make sure he was approaching the women
correctly – they’re all beautiful girls. He’s a lucky guy.’

Order: Dave, a Match.com online dater from New York, made a spreadsheet (pictured in part above) to keep track of the eight women he had been dating. The document got out after he emailed it to one of his dates

Order: Merkur,  from New York, used the spreadsheet (pictured in part above) to make notes on the women’s appearances and when he had contacted them

Instead she said she blamed Arielle,
the girl who Merkur had sent the spreadsheet to ‘as she worked with
spreadsheets a lot too’. Arielle, described as ‘very pretty, sweet and
down to earth’ on the document, then sent it to her friends.

‘I’m blaming her,’ Beidaut said. ‘He trusted her. He wanted to find a cool girl and was reaching out to her. I think she was uncool.

‘She
could have removed my information – she could have at least removed my
name. Now my details are being posted all over blogs and my phone is
ringing and ringing. I should send her my phone bill.’

Beidaut
added that she was flattered by Merkur’s description of her on the
spreadsheet and the fact he had been ‘persistent’ in calling her. But
she said  she is now in a committed relationship and will not be getting
back in touch with him.

Merkur, who works for real-estate finance firm Ladder Capital, had written in the email to Arielle: ‘Well, this could be a mistake, but what the hell…
figured I might as well give you the whole thing. I hope this email
doesn’t backfire, because I really had a great time and hope to hang
again soon :)’

Leaked: David Merkur emailed the spreadsheet to one of his dates who
forwarded it to her friends, adding: ‘Just when I thought I’d seen it
all’

Perhaps most concerning was that Merkur
passed on the information without removing the girls’ telephone numbers,
email addresses, full names or details about their dates, such as how
he scored their appearances. MailOnline has blurred out this personal
information to protect the girls’ identities.

Arielle
then emailed her friends: ‘Wanted to pass this on to you for some
monday morning entertainment. I went on a date with this guy last
wednesday.

Serial dater: Dave (who is not the man pictured in this photo) felt too time-starved to not keep a spreadsheet, he said

Serial dater: Dating Dave (who is not the man pictured in this photo) felt too time-starved to not keep a spreadsheet, he said

‘On
the date, he tells me that he has a spreadsheet for tracking all of the
people from Match that are ‘in process.’ Naturally, I tease him and ask
him to send me the spreadsheet. For some strange reason, he actually
does. See below/attached. Just when I thought I had seen it all…’

The spreadsheet was split into various
categories including ‘Monitor closely’ and ‘Monitor casually’ columns.
It detailed sent text messages and email exchanges as well as the venues
in which Dave and his date met.

The
document detailed his thoughts on
the women’s physical appearances, giving each a score out of ten, with
some being awarded a 7.0 or 7.5 for their ‘mixed bag of pictures’ on the
website.

Arranged in alphabetical order,
Arielle, the woman he sent the email to, is top of the list. Not
concerned with playing it cool, he failed to remove his thoughts on her
including: ‘Hope to see again soon’.

Despite this, he did not think to remove flattering details about his other
dates including top scores for appearances, and the fact he’d ‘hooked
up’ with one of the girls at a party. Another entry reads: ‘OK girl, but very jappy’, a slang word for ‘Jewish American princess’.

In a second page, he lists the women he
has met through friends, rather than the dating website. With these
women, he had the forethought to remove their identities.

He added in the email to Arielle: ‘I
only deleted the non-match people’s names (at the bottom) since some
I’ve known for a long time.’

Merkur
told Jezebel.com he regrets making the spreadsheet, labelling it ‘an
extraordinarily dumb decision’. He explained his thought process.

He
said: ‘I work with spreadsheets a lot… it’s a great additional tool. I
work long days, go to the gym, go out on a couple of midweek dates or
what not, get home late… how am I going to remember them? I’m not.

‘So I made the spreadsheet. My comments aren’t malicious or mean. This was an honest attempt to stay organised.’

Merkur told The New York Post that he was sorry for making the document. ‘I sincerely regret my serious lapse in judgment in this matter and apologise to everyone,’ he said. ‘I am deeply remorseful.’

The girl described as ‘jappy’ on the document told Jezebel.com that Merkur was ‘fidgety’ when the pair met, adding: ‘He got up to readjust himself a few times in the middle of our conversation, which was bizarre. He kept taking his glasses off and then putting them on again.’

In reference to the tag, she said she thought it was funny he had called her that, despite being shocked he had kept a spreadsheet in the first place.

She recalled Merkur correctly identifying her designer handbag during their date, which probably led to the tag. ‘He said his mom had it,’ she said.

Speaking with the Post, Merkur added: ‘Suffice it to say, I will never do anything like this again.’

Here’s what other readers have said. Why not
debate this issue live on our message boards.

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Very sensible, very organised. I approve of the system. When you get inundated with matches from these dating agencies it seems sensible to be organised.
But to send the speadsheet out to a woman you’re thinking of dating? What was he thinking? And this guy, making stupid decisions like this, is looking after our money???? No wonder bankers have the reputation they do nowadays!!

Note: If you can’t remember someone you’ve dated, then they probably aren’t right for you. When you find the right person, you won’t forget.

Interesting that he’s described as an Investment banker, in London they used to be known as merchant bankers in my day.

Hehe. It’s funny. And stupid of him to send it out but at the same time… it’s harmless. He either deleted or never wrote anything insulting or nasty, “very pretty” and “great bod” aren’t exactly on the creepy-scale.

Poor chap.. He’s the new Samantha Brick! … …. I expect we’ll be seeing his face before long…

OMG I think she had a lucky escape!

His only mistake was sending it to a woman he was dating. Oh, and here is a tip, DATE FEWER WOMEN! If he has such a hard time keeping track of eight women, then date two! Problem solved, no stupid spreadsheet needed! Dumba**

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