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.

husky socket set

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clint liles · Sockets

Day
$40
Week
$75
28 days
$200

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $80. On the week rate it is $75.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $640. On the 28-day rate it is $200.

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 husky socket set, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$40$40—day
2$80$75you save $5week
3$120$75you save $45week
4$160$75you save $85week
5$200$75you save $125week
6$240$75you save $165week
7$280$75you save $205week
8$320$115you save $205week
9$360$150you save $210week
10$400$150you save $250week
11$440$150you save $290week
12$480$150you save $330week
13$520$150you save $370week
14$560$150you save $410week
15$600$190you save $410week
16$640$200you save $44028-day
17$680$200you save $48028-day
18$720$200you save $52028-day
19$760$200you save $56028-day
20$800$200you save $60028-day
21$840$200you save $64028-day
22$880$200you save $68028-day
23$920$200you save $72028-day
24$960$200you save $76028-day
25$1,000$200you save $80028-day
26$1,040$200you save $84028-day
27$1,080$200you save $88028-day
28$1,120$200you save $92028-day
29$1,160$240you save $920day
30$1,200$275you save $925week
31$1,240$275you save $965week
32$1,280$275you save $1,005week
33$1,320$275you save $1,045week
34$1,360$275you save $1,085week
35$1,400$275you save $1,125week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 16 days
$200
Rental protection (RPP)
$30
Service fee
$20
Estimated total
$250

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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.