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So glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's all about you and your wallet.

My goal to give you ideas so you can save more and spend less and don't let anyone ever rip you off.

Clark.com is our website ClarkDeals.com, our deal site and speaking of deals coming up in just 20 minutes.

No Clark-Rage-A-S moment today. Instead, Sizzlin' Deal for you.

Six months of free cell phone service. Free. I'm going to give you the whole scoop in 20 minutes.

And later this hour, there are some things I want to make sure you know you don't post on social media.

I'm going to fill you in what is leading to a lot of heartache for people not realizing that on social media a lot of evil doers are out there lurking.

So I'm going to tell you how to be safe. I want to talk about something that is a very hot offer right now from AT&T.

AT&T spent nearly $50 billion buying direct TV. And they're trying to justify that it was a good purchase.

So they're offering some ridiculously cheap deals. If you will combo AT&T services with direct TV.

And the prices are exceedingly low compared to normal. If you bundle high-speed internet at your home with direct TV or AT&T wireless service,

or however the bundle works. But AT&T and direct TV are being marketed together, bundled together, but operationally behind the scenes, it's chaos.

And people that are signing up for these combo deals are signing up under offers where they are promised a price for two years at these extremely low prices.

But all over the country reports are pouring in that AT&T and direct TV are failing to honor the specials that people are signing up for.

And then once they're not honored, getting the problem fixed has proven to be pretty much impossible.

CBS News did an investigative report on the problems and people are finding by the thousands their way to filing complaints about AT&T to governmental and non-governmental bodies.

And the complaint and frustration is the same. That AT&T and I don't believe that this is out of fevery. I don't believe this is out of dishonesty.

I believe this is flat out corporate incompetence. That AT&T botches the bills, charges people double or triple what they've signed up for.

And then the consumer, no matter what, cannot get it resolved and get the bill to what originally they were promised.

Number one, if you get one of these mailings, they're coming in newspaper inserts, they're coming in targeted direct mail to you.

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