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    Question Need help with "as is"!

    What exactly is the meaning of "as is" ?
    ....as is with......?
    Please help me stop banging my head for answers.
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    Default Re: Need help with "as is"!

    Quote Originally Posted by osagisan
    What exactly is the meaning of "as is" ?
    ....as is with......?
    Please help me stop banging my head for answers.
    Thanks
    . . . as is the same with. . .

    EX: He is a writer, as is his wife.

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    Default Re: Need help with "as is"!

    Quote Originally Posted by osagisan
    What exactly is the meaning of "as is" ?
    ....as is with......?
    Please help me stop banging my head for answers.
    Thanks
    It means "just the way it is, no changes"

    Say, you are buying a table and 4 chairs. The salesman says: "It's $550 the hole set, as is".
    It means no changes, I will not charge you $550 and give you only two chairs or no chairs or whatever. This is what you get...you get what yous see.

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