When is it cheaper to rent a Barreto 1620 Rototiller # 16 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $147 day rate would be $588, but the weekly rate caps it at $586.

When is it cheaper to rent a Barreto 1620 Rototiller # 16 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,756 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.

Barreto 1620 Rototiller # 16

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Tillers - Gasoline

Day: $147
Week: $586
28 days: $1,756

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $588. On the week rate it is $586.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,646. On the 28-day rate it is $1,756.

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 Barreto 1620 Rototiller # 16, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$147	$147	—	day
2	$294	$294	—	day
3	$441	$441	—	day
4	$588	$586	you save $2	week
5	$735	$586	you save $149	week
6	$882	$586	you save $296	week
7	$1,029	$586	you save $443	week
8	$1,176	$733	you save $443	week
9	$1,323	$880	you save $443	week
10	$1,470	$1,027	you save $443	week
11	$1,617	$1,172	you save $445	week
12	$1,764	$1,172	you save $592	week
13	$1,911	$1,172	you save $739	week
14	$2,058	$1,172	you save $886	week
15	$2,205	$1,319	you save $886	week
16	$2,352	$1,466	you save $886	week
17	$2,499	$1,613	you save $886	week
18	$2,646	$1,756	you save $890	28-day
19	$2,793	$1,756	you save $1,037	28-day
20	$2,940	$1,756	you save $1,184	28-day
21	$3,087	$1,756	you save $1,331	28-day
22	$3,234	$1,756	you save $1,478	28-day
23	$3,381	$1,756	you save $1,625	28-day
24	$3,528	$1,756	you save $1,772	28-day
25	$3,675	$1,756	you save $1,919	28-day
26	$3,822	$1,756	you save $2,066	28-day
27	$3,969	$1,756	you save $2,213	28-day
28	$4,116	$1,756	you save $2,360	28-day
29	$4,263	$1,903	you save $2,360	day
30	$4,410	$2,050	you save $2,360	day
31	$4,557	$2,197	you save $2,360	day
32	$4,704	$2,342	you save $2,362	week
33	$4,851	$2,342	you save $2,509	week
34	$4,998	$2,342	you save $2,656	week
35	$5,145	$2,342	you save $2,803	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 · 18 days: $1,756
Rental protection (RPP): $263.40
Service fee: $175.60
Estimated total: $2,195

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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.