When is it cheaper to rent a Pair of Plastic Car Service Ramps by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $20 day rate would be $140, but the weekly rate caps it at $130.

When is it cheaper to rent a Pair of Plastic Car Service Ramps on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $480 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.

Pair of Plastic Car Service Ramps

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Nicholas McCarthy · Moving Aids

Day: $20
Week: $130
28 days: $480

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $140. On the week rate it is $130.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $520. On the 28-day rate it is $480.

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 Pair of Plastic Car Service Ramps, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$20	$20	—	day
2	$40	$40	—	day
3	$60	$60	—	day
4	$80	$80	—	day
5	$100	$100	—	day
6	$120	$120	—	day
7	$140	$130	you save $10	week
8	$160	$150	you save $10	week
9	$180	$170	you save $10	week
10	$200	$190	you save $10	week
11	$220	$210	you save $10	week
12	$240	$230	you save $10	week
13	$260	$250	you save $10	week
14	$280	$260	you save $20	week
15	$300	$280	you save $20	week
16	$320	$300	you save $20	week
17	$340	$320	you save $20	week
18	$360	$340	you save $20	week
19	$380	$360	you save $20	week
20	$400	$380	you save $20	week
21	$420	$390	you save $30	week
22	$440	$410	you save $30	week
23	$460	$430	you save $30	week
24	$480	$450	you save $30	week
25	$500	$470	you save $30	week
26	$520	$480	you save $40	28-day
27	$540	$480	you save $60	28-day
28	$560	$480	you save $80	28-day
29	$580	$500	you save $80	day
30	$600	$520	you save $80	day
31	$620	$540	you save $80	day
32	$640	$560	you save $80	day
33	$660	$580	you save $80	day
34	$680	$600	you save $80	day
35	$700	$610	you save $90	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 · 26 days: $480
Rental protection (RPP): $72
Service fee: $48
Estimated total: $600

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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.