When is it cheaper to rent a Canon EOS Rebel T100 by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $180 day rate would be $360, but the weekly rate caps it at $280.

When is it cheaper to rent a Canon EOS Rebel T100 on the 28-day rate?

From day 8. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $380 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.

Canon EOS Rebel T100

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Jada Stewart · Cameras

Day: $180
Week: $280
28 days: $380

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $360. On the week rate it is $280.

Weekly stops winning on

day 8

8 days at the day rate would be $1,440. On the 28-day rate it is $380.

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 Canon EOS Rebel T100, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$180	$180	—	day
2	$360	$280	you save $80	week
3	$540	$280	you save $260	week
4	$720	$280	you save $440	week
5	$900	$280	you save $620	week
6	$1,080	$280	you save $800	week
7	$1,260	$280	you save $980	week
8	$1,440	$380	you save $1,060	28-day
9	$1,620	$380	you save $1,240	28-day
10	$1,800	$380	you save $1,420	28-day
11	$1,980	$380	you save $1,600	28-day
12	$2,160	$380	you save $1,780	28-day
13	$2,340	$380	you save $1,960	28-day
14	$2,520	$380	you save $2,140	28-day
15	$2,700	$380	you save $2,320	28-day
16	$2,880	$380	you save $2,500	28-day
17	$3,060	$380	you save $2,680	28-day
18	$3,240	$380	you save $2,860	28-day
19	$3,420	$380	you save $3,040	28-day
20	$3,600	$380	you save $3,220	28-day
21	$3,780	$380	you save $3,400	28-day
22	$3,960	$380	you save $3,580	28-day
23	$4,140	$380	you save $3,760	28-day
24	$4,320	$380	you save $3,940	28-day
25	$4,500	$380	you save $4,120	28-day
26	$4,680	$380	you save $4,300	28-day
27	$4,860	$380	you save $4,480	28-day
28	$5,040	$380	you save $4,660	28-day
29	$5,220	$560	you save $4,660	day
30	$5,400	$660	you save $4,740	week
31	$5,580	$660	you save $4,920	week
32	$5,760	$660	you save $5,100	week
33	$5,940	$660	you save $5,280	week
34	$6,120	$660	you save $5,460	week
35	$6,300	$660	you save $5,640	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.