When is it cheaper to rent a Event Rentals by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $795 day rate would be $3,180, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,495.

When is it cheaper to rent a Event Rentals on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,995 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

Event Rentals

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Erick Delgado · Clearspan / Marquee

Day: $795
Week: $2,495
28 days: $4,995

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $3,180. On the week rate it is $2,495.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $11,925. On the 28-day rate it is $4,995.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for Event Rentals, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$795	$795	—	day
2	$1,590	$1,590	—	day
3	$2,385	$2,385	—	day
4	$3,180	$2,495	you save $685	week
5	$3,975	$2,495	you save $1,480	week
6	$4,770	$2,495	you save $2,275	week
7	$5,565	$2,495	you save $3,070	week
8	$6,360	$3,290	you save $3,070	week
9	$7,155	$4,085	you save $3,070	week
10	$7,950	$4,880	you save $3,070	week
11	$8,745	$4,990	you save $3,755	week
12	$9,540	$4,990	you save $4,550	week
13	$10,335	$4,990	you save $5,345	week
14	$11,130	$4,990	you save $6,140	week
15	$11,925	$4,995	you save $6,930	28-day
16	$12,720	$4,995	you save $7,725	28-day
17	$13,515	$4,995	you save $8,520	28-day
18	$14,310	$4,995	you save $9,315	28-day
19	$15,105	$4,995	you save $10,110	28-day
20	$15,900	$4,995	you save $10,905	28-day
21	$16,695	$4,995	you save $11,700	28-day
22	$17,490	$4,995	you save $12,495	28-day
23	$18,285	$4,995	you save $13,290	28-day
24	$19,080	$4,995	you save $14,085	28-day
25	$19,875	$4,995	you save $14,880	28-day
26	$20,670	$4,995	you save $15,675	28-day
27	$21,465	$4,995	you save $16,470	28-day
28	$22,260	$4,995	you save $17,265	28-day
29	$23,055	$5,790	you save $17,265	day
30	$23,850	$6,585	you save $17,265	day
31	$24,645	$7,380	you save $17,265	day
32	$25,440	$7,490	you save $17,950	week
33	$26,235	$7,490	you save $18,745	week
34	$27,030	$7,490	you save $19,540	week
35	$27,825	$7,490	you save $20,335	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

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Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.