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

From day 7. 7 days at the $177 day rate would be $1,239, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,152.

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

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,407 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.

Spacious Event Tent

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Kenna Kolodetsky

Day: $177
Week: $1,152
28 days: $4,407

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $1,239. On the week rate it is $1,152.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $4,779. On the 28-day rate it is $4,407.

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 Spacious Event Tent, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$177	$177	—	day
2	$354	$354	—	day
3	$531	$531	—	day
4	$708	$708	—	day
5	$885	$885	—	day
6	$1,062	$1,062	—	day
7	$1,239	$1,152	you save $87	week
8	$1,416	$1,329	you save $87	week
9	$1,593	$1,506	you save $87	week
10	$1,770	$1,683	you save $87	week
11	$1,947	$1,860	you save $87	week
12	$2,124	$2,037	you save $87	week
13	$2,301	$2,214	you save $87	week
14	$2,478	$2,304	you save $174	week
15	$2,655	$2,481	you save $174	week
16	$2,832	$2,658	you save $174	week
17	$3,009	$2,835	you save $174	week
18	$3,186	$3,012	you save $174	week
19	$3,363	$3,189	you save $174	week
20	$3,540	$3,366	you save $174	week
21	$3,717	$3,456	you save $261	week
22	$3,894	$3,633	you save $261	week
23	$4,071	$3,810	you save $261	week
24	$4,248	$3,987	you save $261	week
25	$4,425	$4,164	you save $261	week
26	$4,602	$4,341	you save $261	week
27	$4,779	$4,407	you save $372	28-day
28	$4,956	$4,407	you save $549	28-day
29	$5,133	$4,584	you save $549	day
30	$5,310	$4,761	you save $549	day
31	$5,487	$4,938	you save $549	day
32	$5,664	$5,115	you save $549	day
33	$5,841	$5,292	you save $549	day
34	$6,018	$5,469	you save $549	day
35	$6,195	$5,559	you save $636	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 · 27 days: $4,407
Rental protection (RPP): $661.05
Service fee: $440.70
Estimated total: $5,508.75

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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.