When is it cheaper to rent a WEN Plate Compactor by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $56 day rate would be $224, but the weekly rate caps it at $223.

When is it cheaper to rent a WEN Plate Compactor on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $672 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.

WEN Plate Compactor

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Red Arrow Equipment Rental · Compactors - Vibratory Plate

Day: $56
Week: $223
28 days: $672

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $224. On the week rate it is $223.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,232. On the 28-day rate it is $672.

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 WEN Plate Compactor, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$56	$56	—	day
2	$112	$112	—	day
3	$168	$168	—	day
4	$224	$223	you save $1	week
5	$280	$223	you save $57	week
6	$336	$223	you save $113	week
7	$392	$223	you save $169	week
8	$448	$279	you save $169	week
9	$504	$335	you save $169	week
10	$560	$391	you save $169	week
11	$616	$446	you save $170	week
12	$672	$446	you save $226	week
13	$728	$446	you save $282	week
14	$784	$446	you save $338	week
15	$840	$502	you save $338	week
16	$896	$558	you save $338	week
17	$952	$614	you save $338	week
18	$1,008	$669	you save $339	week
19	$1,064	$669	you save $395	week
20	$1,120	$669	you save $451	week
21	$1,176	$669	you save $507	week
22	$1,232	$672	you save $560	28-day
23	$1,288	$672	you save $616	28-day
24	$1,344	$672	you save $672	28-day
25	$1,400	$672	you save $728	28-day
26	$1,456	$672	you save $784	28-day
27	$1,512	$672	you save $840	28-day
28	$1,568	$672	you save $896	28-day
29	$1,624	$728	you save $896	day
30	$1,680	$784	you save $896	day
31	$1,736	$840	you save $896	day
32	$1,792	$895	you save $897	week
33	$1,848	$895	you save $953	week
34	$1,904	$895	you save $1,009	week
35	$1,960	$895	you save $1,065	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 22 days: $672
Rental protection (RPP): $100.80
Service fee: $67.20
Estimated total: $840

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

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.