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Nowadays, people often say the westerners live in the age of instantaneity. Indeed. We have instant coffee, instant replay, instant polls, instant Messaging and, today, instant shopping. We are all the time in the pursuit of instant gratification. And it is just under such circumstances that electronic commerce has emerged and boomed so quickly that online shops selling all kinds of products from most common daily goods to state-of-the-art high end commodities have mushroomed on the Internet almost overnight. The popularity of e-commerce has brought a lot of changes and convenience to our life and my experience of buying glasses online is just a case in point.
As the New Year’s Day is approaching, I’d like to take this opportunity to buy a present for my father who would have his fiftieth birthday a week away. My father is professor teaching mathematics in a community college. He has been a teacher all his life and has donated almost all his time to the career of education. He would stay up late marking the papers or rectifying students’ thesis under the weak light of an old desk lamp. He has contributed a lot to the teaching cause at the cost of his own eyesight. As a thrift man himself, he would never discard his original glasses even if they had become exceedingly old and out-dated. Therefore I want to give him a pair of new glasses for the coming New Year.
At first, I looked for suitable men’s glasses in local stores but was finally disappointed either because of their just so-so quality or their formidably high price. Then with the advice of one of my friends I turned to online stores, hoping that I could get one suitable for my father, that is, a pair of high quality glasses formal but not too old fashioned in design and in particular, reasonable in price since I, now still a student, could not afford those very expensive ones. Then in one online store I managed to find what I had been looking for. With the help of a sales representative, I placed an order quickly and easily.
The pair of glasses I bought is a fully rimmed one, with a frame in golden color and rectangular lenses. It leaves people an impression of maturity, seriousness and great learning. I believe my father will like it. By the way, the online glasses store can be accessed at www.cheapglasses123.com. |
