When is it cheaper to rent a CRAFTSMAN 15 Amp Bench Top Planer by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $40 day rate would be $200, but the weekly rate caps it at $199.

When is it cheaper to rent a CRAFTSMAN 15 Amp Bench Top Planer on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $600 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.

CRAFTSMAN 15 Amp Bench Top Planer

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Cullen Donaldson · Planers - Miscellaneous

Day: $40
Week: $199
28 days: $600

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $200. On the week rate it is $199.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $880. On the 28-day rate it is $600.

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 CRAFTSMAN 15 Amp Bench Top Planer, 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	$160	—	day
5	$200	$199	you save $1	week
6	$240	$199	you save $41	week
7	$280	$199	you save $81	week
8	$320	$239	you save $81	week
9	$360	$279	you save $81	week
10	$400	$319	you save $81	week
11	$440	$359	you save $81	week
12	$480	$398	you save $82	week
13	$520	$398	you save $122	week
14	$560	$398	you save $162	week
15	$600	$438	you save $162	week
16	$640	$478	you save $162	week
17	$680	$518	you save $162	week
18	$720	$558	you save $162	week
19	$760	$597	you save $163	week
20	$800	$597	you save $203	week
21	$840	$597	you save $243	week
22	$880	$600	you save $280	28-day
23	$920	$600	you save $320	28-day
24	$960	$600	you save $360	28-day
25	$1,000	$600	you save $400	28-day
26	$1,040	$600	you save $440	28-day
27	$1,080	$600	you save $480	28-day
28	$1,120	$600	you save $520	28-day
29	$1,160	$640	you save $520	day
30	$1,200	$680	you save $520	day
31	$1,240	$720	you save $520	day
32	$1,280	$760	you save $520	day
33	$1,320	$799	you save $521	week
34	$1,360	$799	you save $561	week
35	$1,400	$799	you save $601	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.