When is it cheaper to rent a Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 inch Drawing Display Tablet on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $595 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 inch Drawing Display Tablet by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $28 day rate would be $196, but the weekly rate caps it at $176.

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.

Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 inch Drawing Display Tablet

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Janice Carter · Tablets

Day: $28
Week: $176
28 days: $595

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $196. On the week rate it is $176.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $672. On the 28-day rate it is $595.

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 Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 inch Drawing Display Tablet, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$28	$28	—	day
2	$56	$56	—	day
3	$84	$84	—	day
4	$112	$112	—	day
5	$140	$140	—	day
6	$168	$168	—	day
7	$196	$176	you save $20	week
8	$224	$204	you save $20	week
9	$252	$232	you save $20	week
10	$280	$260	you save $20	week
11	$308	$288	you save $20	week
12	$336	$316	you save $20	week
13	$364	$344	you save $20	week
14	$392	$352	you save $40	week
15	$420	$380	you save $40	week
16	$448	$408	you save $40	week
17	$476	$436	you save $40	week
18	$504	$464	you save $40	week
19	$532	$492	you save $40	week
20	$560	$520	you save $40	week
21	$588	$528	you save $60	week
22	$616	$556	you save $60	week
23	$644	$584	you save $60	week
24	$672	$595	you save $77	28-day
25	$700	$595	you save $105	28-day
26	$728	$595	you save $133	28-day
27	$756	$595	you save $161	28-day
28	$784	$595	you save $189	28-day
29	$812	$623	you save $189	day
30	$840	$651	you save $189	day
31	$868	$679	you save $189	day
32	$896	$707	you save $189	day
33	$924	$735	you save $189	day
34	$952	$763	you save $189	day
35	$980	$771	you save $209	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: $595
Rental protection (RPP): $89.25
Service fee: $59.50
Estimated total: $743.75

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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.