When is it cheaper to rent a 16ft Scissor Lift by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $135 day rate would be $540, but the weekly rate caps it at $539.

When is it cheaper to rent a 16ft Scissor Lift on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,620 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.

16ft Scissor Lift

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2Quip Corp - DBA RME & 2QUIP.AI · Lifts - Scissor - Electric

Day: $135
Week: $539
28 days: $1,620

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $540. On the week rate it is $539.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $2,970. On the 28-day rate it is $1,620.

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 16ft Scissor Lift, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$135	$135	—	day
2	$270	$270	—	day
3	$405	$405	—	day
4	$540	$539	you save $1	week
5	$675	$539	you save $136	week
6	$810	$539	you save $271	week
7	$945	$539	you save $406	week
8	$1,080	$674	you save $406	week
9	$1,215	$809	you save $406	week
10	$1,350	$944	you save $406	week
11	$1,485	$1,078	you save $407	week
12	$1,620	$1,078	you save $542	week
13	$1,755	$1,078	you save $677	week
14	$1,890	$1,078	you save $812	week
15	$2,025	$1,213	you save $812	week
16	$2,160	$1,348	you save $812	week
17	$2,295	$1,483	you save $812	week
18	$2,430	$1,617	you save $813	week
19	$2,565	$1,617	you save $948	week
20	$2,700	$1,617	you save $1,083	week
21	$2,835	$1,617	you save $1,218	week
22	$2,970	$1,620	you save $1,350	28-day
23	$3,105	$1,620	you save $1,485	28-day
24	$3,240	$1,620	you save $1,620	28-day
25	$3,375	$1,620	you save $1,755	28-day
26	$3,510	$1,620	you save $1,890	28-day
27	$3,645	$1,620	you save $2,025	28-day
28	$3,780	$1,620	you save $2,160	28-day
29	$3,915	$1,755	you save $2,160	day
30	$4,050	$1,890	you save $2,160	day
31	$4,185	$2,025	you save $2,160	day
32	$4,320	$2,159	you save $2,161	week
33	$4,455	$2,159	you save $2,296	week
34	$4,590	$2,159	you save $2,431	week
35	$4,725	$2,159	you save $2,566	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 · 22 days: $1,620
Rental protection (RPP): $243
Service fee: $162
Estimated total: $2,025

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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.