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BUYINS.NET: BMTC, BONT, ESSA, GAIA, HIRE, HOMB Have Been Removed From Naked Short List Today

Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Posted: 09:25 AM
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Jul 23, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- HOMB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today that these select companies have been removed from the NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE naked short threshold list: Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. (NASDAQ: BMTC), BonTon Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT), ESSA Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: ESSA), Gaiam Inc. (NASDAQ: GAIA), HireRight Inc. (NASDAQ: HIRE), Home BancShares Inc. (NASDAQ: HOMB). For a complete list of companies on the naked short list please visit our web site. To find the SqueezeTrigger Price before a short squeeze starts in any stock, go to www.buyins.net.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp. (NASDAQ: BMTC | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) operates as the bank holding company for The Bryn Mawr Trust Company, which offers commercial and retail banking services in Pennsylvania. It accepts demand, time, and savings deposits. The company offers commercial, real estate, and consumer loans. It also provides a range of wealth management services, such as trust administration and other related fiduciary services, custody services, investment management and advisory services, employee benefit account and IRA administration, estate settlement, tax services, and financial planning and brokerage services. In addition, the company offers casualty, property, and allied insurance lines, as well as life insurance, annuities, medical insurance, and accident and health insurance for groups and individuals; title search and abstract services; mortgage services; and equipment leasing services. As of December 31, 2007, it operated eight full service branches and seven life care community offices in Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties. The company was founded in 1889 and is headquartered in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. With 8.57 million shares outstanding and 38,800 shares declared short as of July 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of BMTC.

BonTon Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: BONT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) through its subsidiaries, operates department stores in the mid-size and metropolitan markets of the United States. Its stores offer brand-name fashion apparel and accessories for women, men, and children, as well as footwear, cosmetics, home furnishings, intimate apparel, and juniors' apparel. As of February 2, 2008, it operated 280 stores in 23 Northeastern, Midwestern, and upper Great Plains states under the Bon-Ton, Bergner's, Boston Store, Carson Pirie Scott, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's, Younkers, and Parisian names. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in York, Pennsylvania. With 17.69 million shares outstanding and 4.12 million shares declared short as of July 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of BONT. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 58,697 shares of BONT that were failing-to-deliver as of September 28, 2007.

ESSA Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: ESSA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) operates as the holding company for ESSA Bank & Trust that provides financial services to individuals, families, and businesses Pennsylvania. It generates various deposit products, including savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, club accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, and other qualified plan accounts. The company provides residential first mortgage loans, including construction mortgage loans; commercial real estate; home equity loans and lines of credit; and commercial and consumer loans, as well as various loans unsecured or secured by deposits, personal loans, and automobile loans. It also offers asset management and trust services, as well as provides investment services through the relationship with PRIMEVEST Financial Services, Inc., a third party broker/dealer and investment advisor. In addition, the company trades in agency securities, mortgage-backed securities, and corporate debt obligations. ESSA Bancorp serves its customers through 13 full-service banking offices located in Monroe and Northampton Counties, Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1916 and is based in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. With 16.98 million shares outstanding and 64,500 shares declared short as of July 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of ESSA. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 74,989 shares of ESSA that were failing-to-deliver as of August 13, 2007.

Gaiam Inc. (NASDAQ: GAIA | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) together with its subsidiaries, operates as a lifestyle media company in the United States, Canada, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The company engages in developing, producing, and licensing information and programs to customers focusing on personal development, wellness, spirituality, ecological lifestyles, media, and conscious community markets. It also develops children's programs, as well as develops and markets music and audio CDs, and publishes printed content. Gaiam primarily serves national retailers, corporate accounts, and the media markets. It also conducts direct to consumer business through catalogs, Internet, retailers, direct response television, electronic downloads, broadband, subscription systems, and communities, as well as international licensing. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado. With 25.05 million shares outstanding and 4.23 million shares declared short as of July 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of GAIA. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 41,688 shares of GAIA that were failing-to-deliver as of September 27, 2007.

HireRight Inc. (NASDAQ: HIRE | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) provides on-demand employment screening solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers a range of background, and drug and health screening services for employment-related purposes. Its background screening services comprise provision of criminal records searches, the core component of employment screening programs, at the county, state, and national level; and other public and nonpublic records searches, such as searches of motor vehicle records, federal and state civil court records, and government lists, as well as credit checks. The company's drug and health screening services include provision of employment related drug and health screening services, including breath, urine, hair, and saliva testing for pre-employment, as well as random, post-accident, reasonable cause, and return-to-duty screening. HireRight also offers industry-specific screening services for various industries. In addition, the company provides various software applications, including HireRight Enterprise, a screening management application that provides its customers with various functionalities, such as order management, user management, compliance management, decision support, and reporting and analytics; Pre-Integrated Screening Solutions that leverage customer's recruiting software application for integrated screening workflow management and seamless data transfer in the recruiting process; Extended Workforce Screening Solution, which assists employers with managing and operating their programs for screening their extended workforce; and Employment Application Solution that streamlines the recruiting process by providing a Web-enabled employment application solution. HireRight serves a diverse customer base in various industries, including business services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and financial services. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Irvine, California. With 11.46 million shares outstanding and 314,700 shares declared short as of July 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of HIRE. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 10,000 shares of HIRE that were failing-to-deliver as of September 26, 2007.

Home BancShares Inc. (NASDAQ: HOMB | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating) a financial holding company, provides a range of commercial and retail banking, and related financial products and services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals, and municipalities in central and north central Arkansas, the Florida Keys, and southwestern Florida. Its deposit services include checking, savings, time deposits, and money market accounts, as well as certificates of deposit. The company offers single and multi-family real estate, residential construction, commercial buildings, small and medium-sized commercial businesses, consumer, and agricultural loan products. It also offers a range of products and services, including Internet banking and voice response information, cash management, overdraft protection, direct deposit, traveler's checks, safe deposit boxes, United States savings bonds, and automatic account transfers. In addition, the company provides trust services, focusing primarily on personal trusts, corporate trusts, and employee benefit trusts; and writes insurance policies for commercial and personal lines of businesses. As of December 31, 2007, it operated 43 branches in Arkansas, 9 branches in the Florida Keys, and 3 branches in southwestern Florida. The company is headquartered in Conway, Arkansas. With 18.34 million shares outstanding and 1.04 million shares declared short as of July 2008, there is no longer a failure to deliver in shares of HOMB. According to quarterly data provided by the SEC, there were still 11,243 shares of HOMB that were failing-to-deliver as of September 27, 2007.

About BUYINS.NET

WWW.BUYINS.NET is a service designed to help bonafide shareholders of publicly traded US companies fight naked short selling. Naked short selling is the illegal act of short selling a stock when no affirmative determination has been made to locate shares of the stock to hypothecate in connection with the short sale. Buyins.net has built a proprietary database that uses Threshold list feeds from NASDAQ, AMEX and NYSE to generate detailed and useful information to combat the naked short selling problem. For the first time, actual trade by trade data is available to the public that shows the attempted size, actual size, price and average value of short sales in stocks that have been shorted and naked shorted. This information is valuable in determining the precise point at which short sellers go out-of-the-money and start losing on their short and naked short trades.

BUYINS.NET has built a massive database that collects, analyzes and publishes a proprietary SqueezeTrigger for each stock that has been shorted, www.buyins.net/squeezetrigger.pdf. The SqueezeTrigger database of nearly 2,050,000,000 short sale transactions goes back to January 1, 2005, and calculates the exact price at which the Total Short Interest is short in each stock. This data was never before available prior to January 1, 2005, because the Self Regulatory Organizations (primary exchanges) guarded it aggressively. After the SEC passed Regulation SHO, exchanges were forced to allow data processors like Buyins.net to access the data.

The SqueezeTrigger database collects individual short trade data on over 7,000 NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ stocks and general short trade data on nearly 8,000 OTCBB and PINKSHEET stocks. Each month the database grows by approximately 50,000,000 short sale transactions and provides investors with the knowledge necessary to time when to buy and sell stocks with outstanding short positions. By tracking the size and price of each month's short transactions, BUYINS.NET provides institutions, traders, analysts, journalists and individual investors the exact price point where short sellers start losing money.

All material herein was prepared by BUYINS.NET, based upon information believed to be reliable. The information contained herein is not guaranteed by BUYINS.NET to be accurate, and should not be considered to be all-inclusive. The companies that are discussed in this opinion have not approved the statements made in this opinion. This opinion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. This material is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as an offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell securities. BUYINS.NET is not a licensed broker, broker dealer, market maker, investment banker, investment advisor, analyst or underwriter. Please consult a broker before purchasing or selling any securities viewed on or mentioned herein. BUYINS.NET may receive compensation in cash or shares from independent third parties or from the companies mentioned.

BUYINS.NET affiliates, officers, directors and employees may also have bought or may buy the shares discussed in this opinion and may profit in the event those shares rise in value. Market commentary provided by Thomas Ronk.

BUYINS.NET will not advise as to when it decides to sell and does not and will not offer any opinion as to when others should sell; each investor must make that decision based on his or her judgment of the market.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and such forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. "Forward-looking statements" describe future expectations, plans, results, or strategies and are generally preceded by words such as "may", "future", "plan" or "planned", "will" or "should", "expected," "anticipates", "draft", "eventually" or "projected". You are cautioned that such statements are subject to a multitude of risks and uncertainties that could cause future circumstances, events, or results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements, including the risks that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, and other risks identified in a companies' annual report on Form 10-K or 10-KSB and other filings made by such company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

You should consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements included herein, and not place undue reliance on such statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are made as of the date hereof and BUYINS.NET undertakes no obligation to update such statements.

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