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Robb Report | 
| Publisher: CurtCo. Publishing LLC
Category: Magazine
List Price: $99.88
Buy New: $65.00
You Save: $34.88 (35%)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 983
Format: Magazine Subscription
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005NIOP
Release Date: November 23, 2001
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Product Description
The mission of this magazine is to be the leading international authority on luxury lifestyles. In pursuit of this mission, the magazine's editors and writers seek out and report on a broad range of high-end, luxury lifestyle subjects. Its articles cover exotic automobiles, travel, investment, business, boating and real estate among other aspects of an upscale lifestyle.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 The Uses of Luxury February 15, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The Robb Report should probably call itself 'The
Magazine for People with Way Too Much Money'. It
is a critical examination of the goods, services
and experiences available to those for whom
money is no object. There is no advice on getting
the most out of a tight budget, just advice on
getting the most.
So, if you don't happen to be in that bracket, what's
the point? Why read about what you can't attain?
If you can keep envy in check, there are three
reasons to read the Robb Report regularly.
1. it makes for very good fantasizing. Think of it
as a harmless form of consumer-porn.
2. the rich really do live well and there are ideas
you can adapt from them to your own more modest
circumstances.
3. some of the writing is superb. Read Jack Smith on
hiking through the Alps (Jan2007)for instance.
If you can't afford the experiences descibed in the
Robb Report, you can at least have the comfort of
their acquaintance. Of course, you could, alternatively
save the cover price, read it in the library and invest
the money you saved in a no-load mutual fund. Allowing
for growth and compounding and all, you'll probably be
able to afford that yacht about nine thousand years
from now.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and
the forthcoming novel bang BANG from Kunati Books.ISBN
9781601640005
Please Don't Be Jealous! January 18, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
It's very easy to hate this magazine. This periodical is geared towards a very select audience who don't see paying $125,000 for a watch or $5,500,000 for a summer house as a "out of reach" and find the price of this subscription pitifully cheap. It can very easily inspire class envy, because after reading for while, it becomes quite clear, page after glossy page: there are many people out there who are much more wealthy that you will ever be in your life. No hard feelings; just a small fact of life that some can't live with.
And that's alright. You can always fantasize, but don't hate this magazine or the people who read it, nor those who are in it. You might try and learn a little from them, and you just might see a bit of your fortune change. If a friend of yours has a copy of this magazine, he or she is either very ambitious or already successful. Keep your eye on him or her. Probably going somewhere soon. :)
Who says Money can't buy you Happiness? November 24, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Bah---they're just shopping at the wrong stores.
More to the point, they probably never leafed through a copy of the Robb Report.
Back in my lowly days as a cold-calling, dialing-for-dollars stockbroker, the ratty looking guy occupying the desk to my right would always sneer when I would pick up the Robb Report on my mid-afternoon walk---"you're a dreamer, Garrett", he would rasp, cackling as I idled, morning coffee-a-steaming, over the glossy, gorgeous, impossibly perfect sleekness of a Bugatti million dollar supercar, or a Lamborghini Murcielago, or a cask of rare Amontillado, or some crafty, indolent, impossibly sexy and lethal day-spa tucked away in the mountain fastness of Colorado.
Yeah, I was a dreamer. Still am.
And? So? What's wrong with that? Self-help gurus jet around this green and pleasant land of hours and make gazillions touting visualization---seeing your goals so as to better attain them---so what's wrong with drooling over a glossy spread of the latest Rolls Royce Phantom and saying "yeah, granted, I'm slaving for 100 hours a week, but next February I'm gonna be riding around in that roadster, with a built-in-humidor"?
See my point?
The Robb Report, then, is my conduit to dreams: to those things within my immediate grasp, and to those creature comforts promised at the far end of an arduous campaign. Things I new of before, perhaps: things the dear old RR introduced unto me---like the whiskey maker Balvenie, and its sharp-as-Toledo-steel 10-year single malt whiskey, with its rich peaty flavor and whiff of Irish Sea insanity.
Dreams, indeed.
Let's burrow down the marrow, dear friends: let's get down into the viscera, the bone, the sinew of the matter. Capitalism is about, frankly, each being rewarded unto his own raw ambition, his crazy energy, his feisty talent. The Robb Report, then, serves as a kind of psychological lodestone: do this, Gentle Knight, and the world---of fine Sevruga caviar, of Crystal, of Rolex, of Bugatti and Maserati and Lamborghini and Rolls Royce and townhouses the size of small nation-states and, more to the point, full financial independence with Savile-Row tailoring and hella-great cigars---shall be yours.
Dare I say that Robb Report is gorgeously shot, lustrously framed, and succinctly written? A sort of porno for uber-capitalists?
I shall. Drink up, me hearties! Yaaaaaar!
JSG
Where the rich meet the beautiful January 10, 2004
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Robb Report focuses on the wealthy, the beautiful, and their deepest desires. Fast cars, fashionistas, fun, frolic, frivolity, and freedom.....that is how the rich stand apart from the ordinary.Where else can a single, affluent man meet a beautiful, healthy, educated, and vibrant woman but at 4M Club---www.4mclub.com.
The Robb Report will take you on a fascinating journey of love, lust, envy, desire, sumptuous trinkets and travels only the truly fortunate possess. Obsession, possession. But no recession for this lucky crowd. The Robb Report is the lap of luxury, the creme de' la creme, the 'ver' in Vercaci.......don't walk, but run, to your nearest bookstore and pick up a copy of this truly decadent magazine.
classy and a must have for any conessouir February 21, 2003
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
Robb Report covers everything a gentleman could ever want or imagine. I have purchased over a dozen vehicles out of Robb Report magazine and have never been disappointed. Thanks Robb Report
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