AT&T’s promiscuous Valentine’s Day promotion

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Pushing beyond the societal restraints of monogamy, AT&T Wireless’ Valentine’s Day deal gives excessive romantics four free quick messaging devices -- something with a keyboard but no Internet -- with the purchase of one smartphone.

Basically, buy yourself a cool, new smartphone and get four dinky devices to dole out to several significant others. You’ll need to get calling plans and contracts for each, but you can just make each potential target pay for their own, right? They can’t be that special anyway.

The promotion has flown mostly under the radar (and rightfully so). It just strikes us as a downright bizarre way to get rid of some Samsung Flights and Pantech Impacts that are lying around the stock room.

The AT&T website advertises the more savory ‘Valentine’s savings.’ But a company press release doesn’t beat around the bush, positioning the deal for those who ‘love several someones.’ No specific references to Tiger Woods were made.

-- Mark Milian
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