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.

Compressor

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Adam Huerta · Compressors - Air Compressors

Day
$65
Week
$110
28 days
$265

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $130. On the week rate it is $110.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $975. On the 28-day rate it is $265.

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 Compressor, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$65$65—day
2$130$110you save $20week
3$195$110you save $85week
4$260$110you save $150week
5$325$110you save $215week
6$390$110you save $280week
7$455$110you save $345week
8$520$175you save $345week
9$585$220you save $365week
10$650$220you save $430week
11$715$220you save $495week
12$780$220you save $560week
13$845$220you save $625week
14$910$220you save $690week
15$975$265you save $71028-day
16$1,040$265you save $77528-day
17$1,105$265you save $84028-day
18$1,170$265you save $90528-day
19$1,235$265you save $97028-day
20$1,300$265you save $1,03528-day
21$1,365$265you save $1,10028-day
22$1,430$265you save $1,16528-day
23$1,495$265you save $1,23028-day
24$1,560$265you save $1,29528-day
25$1,625$265you save $1,36028-day
26$1,690$265you save $1,42528-day
27$1,755$265you save $1,49028-day
28$1,820$265you save $1,55528-day
29$1,885$330you save $1,555day
30$1,950$375you save $1,575week
31$2,015$375you save $1,640week
32$2,080$375you save $1,705week
33$2,145$375you save $1,770week
34$2,210$375you save $1,835week
35$2,275$375you save $1,900week

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.