When is it cheaper to rent a Yamaha MG12xu Mixer with effects by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $21 day rate would be $84, but the weekly rate caps it at $82.

When is it cheaper to rent a Yamaha MG12xu Mixer with effects on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $245 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.

Yamaha MG12xu Mixer with effects

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Sanford Johnson · PA / Audio

Day: $21
Week: $82
28 days: $245

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $84. On the week rate it is $82.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $378. On the 28-day rate it is $245.

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 Yamaha MG12xu Mixer with effects, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$21	$21	—	day
2	$42	$42	—	day
3	$63	$63	—	day
4	$84	$82	you save $2	week
5	$105	$82	you save $23	week
6	$126	$82	you save $44	week
7	$147	$82	you save $65	week
8	$168	$103	you save $65	week
9	$189	$124	you save $65	week
10	$210	$145	you save $65	week
11	$231	$164	you save $67	week
12	$252	$164	you save $88	week
13	$273	$164	you save $109	week
14	$294	$164	you save $130	week
15	$315	$185	you save $130	week
16	$336	$206	you save $130	week
17	$357	$227	you save $130	week
18	$378	$245	you save $133	28-day
19	$399	$245	you save $154	28-day
20	$420	$245	you save $175	28-day
21	$441	$245	you save $196	28-day
22	$462	$245	you save $217	28-day
23	$483	$245	you save $238	28-day
24	$504	$245	you save $259	28-day
25	$525	$245	you save $280	28-day
26	$546	$245	you save $301	28-day
27	$567	$245	you save $322	28-day
28	$588	$245	you save $343	28-day
29	$609	$266	you save $343	day
30	$630	$287	you save $343	day
31	$651	$308	you save $343	day
32	$672	$327	you save $345	week
33	$693	$327	you save $366	week
34	$714	$327	you save $387	week
35	$735	$327	you save $408	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 · 18 days: $245
Rental protection (RPP): $36.75
Service fee: $24.50
Estimated total: $306.25

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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.