America Hears Announces Holiday Savings: All Hearing Aid Prices Reduced Through End of Year

Business Wire, Dec 5, 2008

Online Hearing-Aid Manufacturer Offers Hearing Aids at $999 each.

BRISTOL, Pa. -- America Hears, Inc. (www.AmericaHears.com), the leading manufacturer and online supplier of premium digital hearing aids, today announced a holiday sale that will extend through the end of 2008. America Hears hearing aids, normally priced at $1,099 each, have been reduced by $100 to $999 each, no matter what model the customer needs. America Hears provides a full range of premium digital hearing-aid models, from traditional custom hearing aids to the latest "open-ear" or "open-fit" hearing aids that are small, light, and nearly invisible.

All America Hears hearing aids can be bundled with Virtual Office, the company's unique combination of software and hardware that enables the hearing instruments to be programmed either by the owner, or the audiologists and hearing instrument specialists at America Hears' Customer Service Center. Virtual Office includes the software, Freedom Programmer and cables used to connect the user's hearing aids to any personal computer. Once connected, the owner can make the adjustments or the adjustments can be created in consultation with the Customer Service Center and downloaded over the internet directly into the hearing aids.

"America Hears' goal is to make the premium hearing aids that we design, develop and manufacture available directly to the consumer at affordable prices. With the world now facing economically trying times, we want to do all that we can to help, especially during the Holidays when families come together in celebration," said Henry C. Smith, CEO and founder of America Hears.

David Wright, the company's CFO added, "We are pleased to partner with CareCredit, the leading provider of consumer healthcare finance, to provide a number of attractive financing plans for our customers. CareCredit currently offers no interest on plans of up to 18 months in length and very friendly rates for plans up to 60 months. With CareCredit, it is now possible to own an America Hears premium digital hearing aid for as little as $24 per month and a set of hearing aids for as little as $44 per month."

About America Hears

America Hears is the world's only manufacturer of premium digital hearing aids to sell and support its products directly over the Internet. By making appropriately priced hearing-assistance products easily available to a broader market than ever before, America Hears is helping to expand the hearing-aid industry, which has experienced disappointingly slow growth in spite of the rapidly growing segment of the population suffering from age and job related hearing loss.