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.

Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 Gaming Laptop

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Daniel Gual Cosme · Laptops

Day
$38
Week
$229
28 days
$684

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $266. On the week rate it is $229.

Weekly stops winning on

day 20

20 days at the day rate would be $760. On the 28-day rate it is $684.

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 Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 Gaming Laptop, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$38$38—day
2$76$76—day
3$114$114—day
4$152$152—day
5$190$190—day
6$228$228—day
7$266$229you save $37week
8$304$267you save $37week
9$342$305you save $37week
10$380$343you save $37week
11$418$381you save $37week
12$456$419you save $37week
13$494$457you save $37week
14$532$458you save $74week
15$570$496you save $74week
16$608$534you save $74week
17$646$572you save $74week
18$684$610you save $74week
19$722$648you save $74week
20$760$684you save $7628-day
21$798$684you save $11428-day
22$836$684you save $15228-day
23$874$684you save $19028-day
24$912$684you save $22828-day
25$950$684you save $26628-day
26$988$684you save $30428-day
27$1,026$684you save $34228-day
28$1,064$684you save $38028-day
29$1,102$722you save $380day
30$1,140$760you save $380day
31$1,178$798you save $380day
32$1,216$836you save $380day
33$1,254$874you save $380day
34$1,292$912you save $380day
35$1,330$913you save $417week

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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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.