When is it cheaper to rent a Toastmaster PA by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $17 day rate would be $85, but the weekly rate caps it at $80.

When is it cheaper to rent a Toastmaster PA on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $280 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.

Toastmaster PA

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Sanford Johnson · PA / Audio

Day: $17
Week: $80
28 days: $280

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $85. On the week rate it is $80.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $408. On the 28-day rate it is $280.

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 Toastmaster PA, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$17	$17	—	day
2	$34	$34	—	day
3	$51	$51	—	day
4	$68	$68	—	day
5	$85	$80	you save $5	week
6	$102	$80	you save $22	week
7	$119	$80	you save $39	week
8	$136	$97	you save $39	week
9	$153	$114	you save $39	week
10	$170	$131	you save $39	week
11	$187	$148	you save $39	week
12	$204	$160	you save $44	week
13	$221	$160	you save $61	week
14	$238	$160	you save $78	week
15	$255	$177	you save $78	week
16	$272	$194	you save $78	week
17	$289	$211	you save $78	week
18	$306	$228	you save $78	week
19	$323	$240	you save $83	week
20	$340	$240	you save $100	week
21	$357	$240	you save $117	week
22	$374	$257	you save $117	week
23	$391	$274	you save $117	week
24	$408	$280	you save $128	28-day
25	$425	$280	you save $145	28-day
26	$442	$280	you save $162	28-day
27	$459	$280	you save $179	28-day
28	$476	$280	you save $196	28-day
29	$493	$297	you save $196	day
30	$510	$314	you save $196	day
31	$527	$331	you save $196	day
32	$544	$348	you save $196	day
33	$561	$360	you save $201	week
34	$578	$360	you save $218	week
35	$595	$360	you save $235	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 · 24 days: $280
Rental protection (RPP): $42
Service fee: $28
Estimated total: $350

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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.