Inspired by the thread about super-exclusive night clubs. What product or service is available only to the über-connected, let’s say to maybe one hundred or fewer people in the entire world? Something that multi-billionaire status is merely a necessary but not sufficient qualification? Like perhaps the strictly limited supply of some particular vintage wine, or some spice that only grows in a small region of the Burma highlands with an annual production of a few kilos. Or maybe some designer/artist who’s production is in demand and strictly limited?
The various casinos around the world have a class of players called, ‘whales’ (at least that’s what they were called on the tv documentery I saw). They are the ones that get the really big perks; the $10,000 a night rooms, flown in on private jets, etc.
Don’t remember the number they gave for their population, but it wasn’t a lot, maybe 1,000ish.
So far as I know the number of people getting sexual favors from Ms Hook is limited to me. That’s a fairly select group.
How many people own their own 747? Or A380?
I’m gonna go with those space tourists.
Expensive, and so far few, but not really exclusive, in the snob sense that I’m thinking of. Maybe what I’m thinking of is something that money can only indirectly buy; that is, near-limitless wealth can be parlayed into the status/ connections/ personal favors that can get you access, but you can’t just directly plunk down the money. Like how much money you have to donate to the right political party to have brunch with the President for example.
An expensive jewelry shop is one that charges millions of dollars for their pieces. An exclusive jewelry shop is one where the price is “if you have to ask, you can’t afford it”.
I’m gonna suggest that whatever it is, it’s so exclusive that proles like us have no idea what it is, nor could we find out without more connections than we have or can get.
The Aston Martin One-77:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aston_Martin_One-77
http://jalopnik.com/5056462/1896-million-aston-martin-one+77-sales-contract-leaks-with-more-pictures-details
Think the Bugatti Veyron is exclusive? Try to get your hands on this one. only 77 to be made.
It’s not that hard to be a whale. The CEO of Fry’s Electronics was busted earlier this week by the IRS for embezzling 46 million or so from his company and blowing it on baccarat.
I still don’t get the point behind that “if you need to ask you can’t afford it” quote. One good example is Boeing when asked about the price of their business jet or custom 747’s. Suppose for a sec I could afford it. I’d still have to ask otherwise how am I supposed to know how much money to transfer out of my account to theirs in order to pay for it? 
They send you a bill afterwards. During the purchasing process, you have so much money that the price isn’t even a concern. You simply look at the product and decide yes/no.
How about membership in the Augusta National Golf Club? Money won’t buy your way in - you have to be invited. There are about 300 members (all men.)
And, until VERY recently, all white.
Rattlesnake Island on Lake Erie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattlesnake_Island_(Lake_Erie)
85 acres of semi-opulant luxury. Access to Island allowed only to the 65-member Rattlesnake Island Club. Can’t become a member until another member first quits. Also need at least 2 members to recommend you, and $100,000-$300,000 per year in membership and maintenance fees. All others will be turned away by armed guards in security boats before having time to dock. I don’t suppose any dopers rub shoulders with the members?
I’m trying to figure out why a place that exclusive would need, or even want, a website. Rattlesnake Island Club.
No.
I suspect much of the point of being in a super-exclusive club is lost unless people on the outside know your part of a super-exclusive club.
ETA: Also, I’m adding “sneaking onto rattlesnake island and hanging out on the beach” onto my list of things to do before I die.
Community relations. If the Rattlesnake Club can convince the locals of Put-in-Hand that they’re just a harmless group of vacationing billionaires, then it’ll be easier to shake off the charges of secret laboratories under the island performing medical experimentation (cloning, designer-organ growing, etc) on the Slavic slaves they’ve purchased from the Russian mafia.
I’m sure that you will be a very welcome addition to the Monthly Manhunt.
But they’ll let a Negro in before a skirt, see. 
Women are welcome to play as guests, by the way - it’s not like it’s a “no girls allowed” club, you just can’t be a member.
John Travolta owns a 707 that he parks at his house. He lives right next to a runway. He is qualified to fly a 747 as well but he does not own one. I think there are some arabs who own 767s for their personal use.