Can anyone help with what a fair rental cost for equipment should be?
The group I work with is attempting to rent some lighting equipment for their spring musical. I was not involved in the Christmas show and the rental guy that they got brought 6 elation led tri-pars, 2 source 4 ellipsoidals, 24 foot wide, 8 foot high truss, one lighting tree, and an ancient non-user friendly Strand light console. Rental was for one week. He set up and left, didn’t provide any operator or training. Cost to us was $3000.
I find that outrageous. Am I overreacting?
This show, we’re going to need the truss again, if not 2 trusses, preferably with hand crank genie towers on each end, a light board and some dmx splitters, but I’m really afraid of the numbers I’m going to get back. Is there a number that is “fair”? In my old days, we’d typically rent equipment for 5-10% of the new purchase price, but I’ve been told that’s not the case anymore. Any help is appreciated!
The group I work with is attempting to rent some lighting equipment for their spring musical. I was not involved in the Christmas show and the rental guy that they got brought 6 elation led tri-pars, 2 source 4 ellipsoidals, 24 foot wide, 8 foot high truss, one lighting tree, and an ancient non-user friendly Strand light console. Rental was for one week. He set up and left, didn’t provide any operator or training. Cost to us was $3000.
I find that outrageous. Am I overreacting?
This show, we’re going to need the truss again, if not 2 trusses, preferably with hand crank genie towers on each end, a light board and some dmx splitters, but I’m really afraid of the numbers I’m going to get back. Is there a number that is “fair”? In my old days, we’d typically rent equipment for 5-10% of the new purchase price, but I’ve been told that’s not the case anymore. Any help is appreciated!