Dealwhale asks to invite friends right after one sign up which I think is not so cool. But said that I don't think their invite page is that different from other websites (myspace etc). From what I remember it was a standard download webmail contacts and then invite process!

Looks pretty much like a scam. When you accept your invitation, you've confirmed an active email address. If you then provide your *email login info* (!!!) it will grab all of your contacts and attempt to do the same to them. If you attempt to skip inviting friends, you get stuck. I invited a dummy email address, and you still get stuck. Nothing on the web page, and it looks like their email newsletter has been "coming soon" for 6 months or more. Be aware that if you confirm your email address, you've likely provided a high quality email address to spammers, and if you don't confirm you're just like any other harvested email address: they'll spam it anyway. If you enter your email login info to them, you should change your password *immediately*, it is most likely now in "the wrong hands" and there's no telling what could happen. Perhaps they're legit, but I seriously doubt it. I've unsubscribed, so I don't expect any more email from DealWhale themselves, but don't have any such hopes from whoever they'll probably sell my address to.

I also got a invite from a friend and signed for dealwhale. Yes they show a addressbook import/invite page after you sign up. But i remember it was a straight forward invite page nothing sneaky or deceptive... Anyway i choose not to invite any at this time.

The MINUTE you open your "invitation", a data mining program grabs ALL of your contacts and sends an "invite" to them.......when THEY open the invite, they also get their contacts "mined". I don't care how good their deals are, it's a REALLY SLEAZY way to do business, and they'll got NO BUSINESS FROM ME....INTRUSIVE AND CORRUPT!!! THIS IS A UK COMPANY, BTW.

I got an invite from a friend for this site dealwhale.com. Its homepage says its invite only. I am yet to receive dealwhale's daily email but their concept sound interesting.