When is it cheaper to rent a PRORUN Gas Backpack Blower by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $40 day rate would be $160, but the weekly rate caps it at $150.

When is it cheaper to rent a PRORUN Gas Backpack Blower on the 28-day rate?

From day 11. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $300 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.

PRORUN Gas Backpack Blower

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Adventure Storage and Rentals · Blowers - Backpack - Gasoline

Day: $40
Week: $150
28 days: $300

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $160. On the week rate it is $150.

Weekly stops winning on

day 11

11 days at the day rate would be $440. On the 28-day rate it is $300.

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 PRORUN Gas Backpack Blower, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$40	$40	—	day
2	$80	$80	—	day
3	$120	$120	—	day
4	$160	$150	you save $10	week
5	$200	$150	you save $50	week
6	$240	$150	you save $90	week
7	$280	$150	you save $130	week
8	$320	$190	you save $130	week
9	$360	$230	you save $130	week
10	$400	$270	you save $130	week
11	$440	$300	you save $140	28-day
12	$480	$300	you save $180	28-day
13	$520	$300	you save $220	28-day
14	$560	$300	you save $260	28-day
15	$600	$300	you save $300	28-day
16	$640	$300	you save $340	28-day
17	$680	$300	you save $380	28-day
18	$720	$300	you save $420	28-day
19	$760	$300	you save $460	28-day
20	$800	$300	you save $500	28-day
21	$840	$300	you save $540	28-day
22	$880	$300	you save $580	28-day
23	$920	$300	you save $620	28-day
24	$960	$300	you save $660	28-day
25	$1,000	$300	you save $700	28-day
26	$1,040	$300	you save $740	28-day
27	$1,080	$300	you save $780	28-day
28	$1,120	$300	you save $820	28-day
29	$1,160	$340	you save $820	day
30	$1,200	$380	you save $820	day
31	$1,240	$420	you save $820	day
32	$1,280	$450	you save $830	week
33	$1,320	$450	you save $870	week
34	$1,360	$450	you save $910	week
35	$1,400	$450	you save $950	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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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.