When is it cheaper to rent a Pelican Pink Kayak with Paddle by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $13 day rate would be $65, but the weekly rate caps it at $64.

When is it cheaper to rent a Pelican Pink Kayak with Paddle on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $192 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.

Pelican Pink Kayak with Paddle

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Russell Blinco · Kayak

Day: $13
Week: $64
28 days: $192

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $65. On the week rate it is $64.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $247. On the 28-day rate it is $192.

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 Pelican Pink Kayak with Paddle, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$13	$13	—	day
2	$26	$26	—	day
3	$39	$39	—	day
4	$52	$52	—	day
5	$65	$64	you save $1	week
6	$78	$64	you save $14	week
7	$91	$64	you save $27	week
8	$104	$77	you save $27	week
9	$117	$90	you save $27	week
10	$130	$103	you save $27	week
11	$143	$116	you save $27	week
12	$156	$128	you save $28	week
13	$169	$128	you save $41	week
14	$182	$128	you save $54	week
15	$195	$141	you save $54	week
16	$208	$154	you save $54	week
17	$221	$167	you save $54	week
18	$234	$180	you save $54	week
19	$247	$192	you save $55	28-day
20	$260	$192	you save $68	28-day
21	$273	$192	you save $81	28-day
22	$286	$192	you save $94	28-day
23	$299	$192	you save $107	28-day
24	$312	$192	you save $120	28-day
25	$325	$192	you save $133	28-day
26	$338	$192	you save $146	28-day
27	$351	$192	you save $159	28-day
28	$364	$192	you save $172	28-day
29	$377	$205	you save $172	day
30	$390	$218	you save $172	day
31	$403	$231	you save $172	day
32	$416	$244	you save $172	day
33	$429	$256	you save $173	week
34	$442	$256	you save $186	week
35	$455	$256	you save $199	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 · 19 days: $192
Rental protection (RPP): $28.80
Service fee: $19.20
Estimated total: $240

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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.