Guide to Flash Sale Sites & Sample Sale Invites

Incentive: $10 for each friend that registers and purchases. Features the best brands in skate, surf, snow, and motocross.

Incentive: $25 for each friend that registers and purchases. A members only home decor boutique brought to you by the folks at 2Modern.

Updated a few times a week, we love 365Hangers – its a unique site that shows clothes on models in each given size. No more wondering how the dress on the size 2 model will look on your size 8 body!

Sample Sale Site for high end jewelry and watches.

Incentive: $25 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Avelle and BBOS offer new and pre-owned designer handbags for sale and for rental! They also occasionally have some fabulous private sale events with deep discounts.

Incentive: $10 Credit when Friends Join. Site was originally geared towards Latinas but now they are carrying a lot of high end lines such as Tiffany & Co. and Chanel.

Incentive: Get $50 in credits when friends you’ve invited sign up and make a purchase! This site features high end handbags by the likes of Prada and Marc Jacobs.

Incentive: Free Shipping for each referred friend that makes a purchase. A new private sale site featuring only jewelry – and the prices are extremely affordable!

Incentive: Get $25 in credit when your invited friends sign up and shop! This Bluefly’s brand new flash sale site featuring brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Miu Miu to name a few!

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. A Canadian based private sale site, we love the brands and prices at Beyond the Rack. Our one complaint? The shipping is S-L-O-W. Like, we’ve had some items take 6 weeks to get to me kind of slow. We think they place their orders with brands directly, who then ship them the merchandise to BTR, and then BTR ships it to customers. It would speed things up a lot if they just stocked all their sale items and shipped back to the brand what they couldn’t sell. We’re just sayin’. But the deals are worth the wait.

Incentive: $20 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Usually featuring new sales every other day, BDB has some fabulous vintage pre-owned items like Chanel and Louis Vuitton handbags, and also features newer and relative known brands as well.

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Biva carries mostly designer fragrances, but occasionally also has cosmetics, bags, wallets, sunglasses and more.

Incentive: $10 for each friend invited who signs up and shops. Blitsy brings you the best in all things crafts related.

Incentive: $25 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. We love the retail website Bluefly, but we love their private sales even more!

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Singapore based sample sale site! Please note – there are no exchanges – like, ever.

Incentive: Give your friends a free $30 credit when they join Bungolow, and you get a $30 credit after they make their first purchase.

Incentive: $25 for each friend referred who makes a purchase. Yes this is the same Century 21 Department store found in NYC – but with online flash sales! Not to be confused with Century 21 the real estate company…

Incentive: $10 Canadian when a friend you’ve invited registers and shops. Promoted as an international sample sale site, this site is based in Canada and pays in Canadian dollars your credits for inviting friends.

Incentive: $10 for every friend referred who makes a purchase. Clique to Know is the first sample sale site for sizes 10+!

Incentive: £15 for every friend referred who makes a purchase. Cocosa is a private-sale site that currently ships to the UK and Northern Ireland only.

No incentives currently to invite friends. Covet is a site where you help their software learn what kinds of styles you like and then the site recommends items for you to purchase, like a personal shopper!

No incentives currently to invite friends. DDPush has not updated their sales in some time but occasional has a few good ones. Turn off your sound though, the music is horrid.

Incentive: Invite your friends to Decovry.com and receive 10 EUROs credit when each of your friends place their first order with us within the first 4 months after registration. Decovery ships to: Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Poland, UK, Ireland, Finland, France and Austria.

Dinstict is a Canadian flash sale site which currently only ships within Canada. Features brands like Michael Kors, Betsey Johnson and more. Incentive: You will receive a $20 credit each time a friend you invited makes his first purchase on DINSTINCT.

Incentive: $10 when friends register and shop. Flash sales for active lifestyles.

Incentive: $10 when friends you invite sign up and shop. This flash sale site is geared towards guys – featuring electronics, outdoor, hunting, and shooting gear – plus fashion eyewear, high quality clothing and apparel, gun accessories, special training programs, and more.

Incentive: $10 credit when your friends you’ve invited sign up and shop. The only flash sale site that delivers fresh flowers!

$10 credit for every friend you invite who makes a purchase that you can spend on eBay Fashion Vault or anywhere on eBay! New private sales starting every Monday with different brands each week – and best of all, shipping is free!

Incentive: $10 for each referred friend that makes a purchase. New sales Monday – Friday with great deals on brands like Prada, Dior and more!

Incentive: Receive $25 in Credit when your friends sign up and make a purchase. Epic Thrills features epic deals on adventure trips and more.

Incentive: $10 for every friend you invite that makes a purchase. Estile has been around for some time but we’ve never purchased. Most of the brands we’ve never heard of but some people like this site!

Incentive: $20 for every friend you invite that makes a purchase. Exclusively IN brings fashions from India to members at low prices.

TBD – Sales start in 45 days – site is currently pre-launch. Daily Design Deals – Site launches in appx. 45 days.

No incentive to invite friends currently. This site seems to be awaiting new events the last time we checked but in the past has offered such brands as 7 for All Mankind, among others.

Incentive: Between $15-50 in credits for inviting friends, depending on how long you’ve been a member and how frequently you shop. Possibly the most well known and best private sale website featuring affordable brands as well as higher end luxe items by names like Gucci, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs and more. We shop there so much we probably should be getting that special “Gilt Noir” black card for members that spend over $10,000 a year! Move over Gwyneth!

Incentive: Invite friends and your friend will get 20% off their first purchase, then you’ll get 20% off your next purchase. A daily deals site that is a spinoff of Gilt Groupe currently for the following cities: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and San Francisco. They do have national deals too however, so sign up no matter where you live!

Gilt Taste features gourmet food and wine plus original, daily stories—including recipes, videos, food news and opinions from artisans, experts, chefs.

Incentive: $5 for each referred friend that makes a purchase; $20 for 9 months of VIP access. Glamlist generally has relatively unknown brands but I did pick up a couple pairs of Diesel jeans there once, and their prices rarely are over $100.

Incentive: Unknown at this time. Launching 10/3/2011, this new site will have features for sharing outfits with friends and more!

Incentive: $20 in credits for every friend invited who makes a purchase. Featuring brands like Botkier, Furla, Linea Pelle and more, Guiltless Purse offers designer handbags at sample sale prices!

Incentive: Invite Friends and when they shop, earn 1% of their spending in credits to Haute Avenue. This is a Singapore based site that ships internationally, and carries high end handbags from the likes of Prada, Miu Miu, Hermes and more.

Incentive: $10 in credits for every friend who signs up and makes a purchase. With new sales daily, this invite-only site features some fabulous deals on hot designer brands, and now offers home items as well as apparel for women, men, kids and baby too!

Incentive: Every time you invite a friend, HomeSav will give them $10.00 off his/her first purchase; when your friend makes that purchase, they’ll give you $15.00 towards your purchase of choice. The latest home items sample sale site!

Hotelyo is a European based travel flash sale site. Incentive: For each friend you invite you earn €20 to spend on Hotelyo offers.

Incentive: $25 in credits for every friend who signs up and makes a purchase. Ideeli is known for some of its super clearance sales, called the Ideeli Red Sale, as well as their everyday low prices on designer brands, home goods and now even on travel deals!

Incentive: $20 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. We love a good bottle of wine, and therefore we adore the “Cellar Raid” sales on this site! Just placed our first order, can’t wait to receive it!

Incentive: $25 for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. New sales daily, many seem to be on watches and jewelry, but you will also find great sales on high end designer brands like Prada and Dior.

Incentive: $10 for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. Private sales for the dudes! Jack Threads features brands like Members Only, Skullcandy, English Laundry and more!

Incentive: $25 in credit for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. The travel sister-site to Gilt Groupe, Jetsetter offers special travel packages daily.

Incentive: $15 in credit for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. High end home goods by brands like Le Creuset, Trina Turk Residential, Laura Ashley and more.

Incentive: $5 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Another new sample sale site aimed at urban streetwear brands.

Incentive: Give a $10 credit to a friend with your “join keekoo” invitation and…Get a $10 credit for every friend who joins because you delivered the invitation first!

No current incentive to invite friends. Kembrel started out as an invite-only site for college students only but has now opened up membership to all. You can also shop Kembrel entirely on Facebook!

Incentive: $5 per friend who signs up and shops. Kepris is currently featuring high end luxury handbags by brands like Chloe, Givenchy, Prada and more.

$10 in credits for referred friends who make a purchase. The first sample sale site for golfers!

Incentive: Earn £10 when you invite a friend who shops! This UK site features discounted sportswear and sneakers.

Incentive: $15 in credits for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. A sample sale site for sporting goods, as their name suggests! Love extreme sports or even just working out? Check them out for all your sporting needs!

Incentive: $25 in credits for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. Private sales on wine and vino accessories!

Incentive: Get $15 when a friend you invite signs up and shops plus $1 goes to charity. This eco-loving site features innovative eco-friendly and healthy products and brands that you can discover without compromising on style.

A new flash sale site for homegoods! Incentive: $10 for every friend who signs up and shops!

Incentive: $15 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase, $10 for every friend’s friend who makes a purchase, and $5 for every friend’s friend’s friend (Yeah!) who makes a purchase! Modnique offers deals daily on well known brands as well as some unknowns. Great deals on sunglasses and designer watches, among many other things! One of our faves!

Incentive: None. Amazon’s latest venture into the Sample Sale World!

Incentive: $5 credit for every friend who signs up and shops. A combination daily deal/sample sale site – each day there are 8 new deals and flat $2 shipping! From makeup by Stila or Smashbox to denim from Paige Premium and more, the deals are too good to miss!

Incentive: Invite friends and they’ll get an automatic $5 credit in their account for signing up, and you will receive a $5 credit after they make their first purchase.

Incentive: Earn $15 when you invite friends who make a purchase. Olume features high end designer home goods at up to 70% off retail!

Incentive: $25 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Daily sales on designer items for your home. We’ve gotten some great deals on Chic Canvas and Cuisinart here!

Incentive: Send your friends an invite and they’ll give you $1 for the first 10 that join! The more friends that join, the more credits you’ll earn. Plus, get a $20 credit when your friends buy. A social network of shoppers, OpenSky taps you into exclusive food, style, healthy living, and home design sales that are handpicked by a bevy of curators you choose to follow. Each week, your arbiters single out the item they fancy the most and give you first dibs to purchase it up to 60% off.

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Flash sales on Outdoor Gear, Apparel & Travel.

Incentive: Get $10 in credits for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. Another one of the new sample sales aimed at Urban Streetwear, PLNDR has had some nice stuff recently!

Incentive: Get $25 in credits for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. Middle range to high end brands like Work Custom, Amrita Singh and more! Love!

Incentive: Get $10 in credits for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. A sample sale geared toward paying it forward and giving back. Here’s how it works, when you make a purchase, you save up to 50% from socially conscious and eco-friendly companies, and help raise money for the charity or non-profit they are passionate about.

Incentive: Get $25 in credits when friends you invite register and make a purchase. Based in Singapore, Reebonz ships to many countries, including the U.S. They carry authentic high end goods such as Prada, Gucci, Burberry and more, but check their prices, sometimes the conversion rate means the sales aren’t THAT good and their shipping prices tend to be on the high side to the US. However I did see some Marc Jacobs canvas totes once for $50 – yes please!

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. One of the biggies in the sample sale world, Rue La La never disappoints. With new sales daily as well as special sales like the Final Sale Act and Sunday Night Styleathons which are blowout sales, we are always finding something fashionable at Rue La La.

No incentives to invite friends at this time. Saks Fashion Fix is an offshoot of Saks Fifth Avenue, now offering daily flash sales.

£10 for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. A UK based site which also ships to these other countries: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland. Features fabulous designer brands from Diesel to Juicy Couture. We just wish they would ship to the states! For now, we ship our purchases to our friend in Ireland and he ships it to us! Thank goodness for good friends!

Incentive: $20 in credits for every friend who registers and makes a purchase. Seen On is an invitation-only online sample sale site that features brands that are found on TV shows, movies, and celebrities. They also have some affiliation with Billion Dollar Babes, as their sales are often the same brands on the same day, or a day or two apart.

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Another action sport based sample sale sites, this one focuses on the boarding and surfing lifestyle.

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. The latest sample sale site for men, Shop Like Kings just arrived on the scene featuring brands like RVCA and Junk Food.

Incentive: $25 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Invite only travel site from the creators of TripAdvisor.com, this site has some killer deals on go-to destinations.

Incentive: $30 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Invite only travel site with great deals on go-to destinations.

Incentive: $25 credit for each referred friend that makes at least a $100 purchase. Sample Sale Site catering to Canadians – ships only to Canada. Features brands like American Apparel, Romeo & Juliet Couture and more.

Incentive: $25 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Middle Eastern based Gilt Groupe-look alike. Currently does not ship to the US.

Incentive: $25 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. The first ever wedding-related sample sale site!

Incentive: $10 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Invitation Only site for outdoor enthusiasts featuring gear for rock climbing, running shoes and beyond!

Incentive: $1 for every friend you invite up to $50 plus $20 when your friend makes his or her first purchase, plus $1 each time that friend buys again! Invitation Only site for high end home goods and products that inspire.

Incentive: $10 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. A sample sale site with cute stuff for kids and babies! J’adore the baby Diesel jeans!

Incentive: Get Upgraded to a First Look Membership when you Invite 10 friends who join. The self-proclaimed first designer consignor flash sale site!

Incentive: $25 credit for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Great deals, often on brands you won’t find at other sites. We picked up a True Religion bikini for $50, score!

Incentive: $15 in credits when your friends sign up and shop. Totsy features flash sales on items for moms and kids, as well as travel sales.

Incentive: Every time you invite a friend to join, they receive an instant $10 shopping credit and their first purchase of $50 or more earns you a $10 credit in your account. Treehouse Tykes is the leading venue for children’s furniture, bedding, gear, accessories and apparel at up to 70% off. 10% of their net proceeds go to the school or charity of your choice.

Incentive: $15 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Members Only Luxury Travel site.

Incentive: Get a $20 Credit when referred friends sign up and shop. This is the USA version of the first French flash sale site, sponsored by American Express.

Incentive: $25 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Some of the best deals on travel we’ve seen are here, and so many options!

Incentive: $10 in credits for each referred friend that makes a purchase. Zulily is probably one of the most popular sites out there right now that features sales for moms, kids and baby. Daily deals on several well known brands!