When is it cheaper to rent a American Pavilion Tent by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $377 day rate would be $2,639, but the weekly rate caps it at $2,454.

When is it cheaper to rent a American Pavilion Tent on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $9,387 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.

American Pavilion Tent

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Kenna Kolodetsky

Day: $377
Week: $2,454
28 days: $9,387

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $2,639. On the week rate it is $2,454.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $10,179. On the 28-day rate it is $9,387.

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 American Pavilion Tent, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$377	$377	—	day
2	$754	$754	—	day
3	$1,131	$1,131	—	day
4	$1,508	$1,508	—	day
5	$1,885	$1,885	—	day
6	$2,262	$2,262	—	day
7	$2,639	$2,454	you save $185	week
8	$3,016	$2,831	you save $185	week
9	$3,393	$3,208	you save $185	week
10	$3,770	$3,585	you save $185	week
11	$4,147	$3,962	you save $185	week
12	$4,524	$4,339	you save $185	week
13	$4,901	$4,716	you save $185	week
14	$5,278	$4,908	you save $370	week
15	$5,655	$5,285	you save $370	week
16	$6,032	$5,662	you save $370	week
17	$6,409	$6,039	you save $370	week
18	$6,786	$6,416	you save $370	week
19	$7,163	$6,793	you save $370	week
20	$7,540	$7,170	you save $370	week
21	$7,917	$7,362	you save $555	week
22	$8,294	$7,739	you save $555	week
23	$8,671	$8,116	you save $555	week
24	$9,048	$8,493	you save $555	week
25	$9,425	$8,870	you save $555	week
26	$9,802	$9,247	you save $555	week
27	$10,179	$9,387	you save $792	28-day
28	$10,556	$9,387	you save $1,169	28-day
29	$10,933	$9,764	you save $1,169	day
30	$11,310	$10,141	you save $1,169	day
31	$11,687	$10,518	you save $1,169	day
32	$12,064	$10,895	you save $1,169	day
33	$12,441	$11,272	you save $1,169	day
34	$12,818	$11,649	you save $1,169	day
35	$13,195	$11,841	you save $1,354	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: $9,387
Rental protection (RPP): $1,408.05
Service fee: $938.70
Estimated total: $11,733.75

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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.