A reader reports that a Bellevue, WA AT&T store is trying to play it like the company-wide iPhone price drop is a “manager’s special.” When he called the regional manager, our reader was told the signs were the brainchild of the regional marketing department.

Does Steve Jobs manage this store? As if. Disingenuous, to say the least.

UPDATE: A tipster tells us these signs are in fact against company policy.

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