When is it cheaper to rent a Barreto 918 Rototiller # 7 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $133 day rate would be $532, but the weekly rate caps it at $530.

When is it cheaper to rent a Barreto 918 Rototiller # 7 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,590 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 918 Rototiller # 7

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Tillers - Rear Tine Tillers - Gasoline

Day: $133
Week: $530
28 days: $1,590

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $532. On the week rate it is $530.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,394. On the 28-day rate it is $1,590.

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 918 Rototiller # 7, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$133	$133	—	day
2	$266	$266	—	day
3	$399	$399	—	day
4	$532	$530	you save $2	week
5	$665	$530	you save $135	week
6	$798	$530	you save $268	week
7	$931	$530	you save $401	week
8	$1,064	$663	you save $401	week
9	$1,197	$796	you save $401	week
10	$1,330	$929	you save $401	week
11	$1,463	$1,060	you save $403	week
12	$1,596	$1,060	you save $536	week
13	$1,729	$1,060	you save $669	week
14	$1,862	$1,060	you save $802	week
15	$1,995	$1,193	you save $802	week
16	$2,128	$1,326	you save $802	week
17	$2,261	$1,459	you save $802	week
18	$2,394	$1,590	you save $804	28-day
19	$2,527	$1,590	you save $937	28-day
20	$2,660	$1,590	you save $1,070	28-day
21	$2,793	$1,590	you save $1,203	28-day
22	$2,926	$1,590	you save $1,336	28-day
23	$3,059	$1,590	you save $1,469	28-day
24	$3,192	$1,590	you save $1,602	28-day
25	$3,325	$1,590	you save $1,735	28-day
26	$3,458	$1,590	you save $1,868	28-day
27	$3,591	$1,590	you save $2,001	28-day
28	$3,724	$1,590	you save $2,134	28-day
29	$3,857	$1,723	you save $2,134	day
30	$3,990	$1,856	you save $2,134	day
31	$4,123	$1,989	you save $2,134	day
32	$4,256	$2,120	you save $2,136	week
33	$4,389	$2,120	you save $2,269	week
34	$4,522	$2,120	you save $2,402	week
35	$4,655	$2,120	you save $2,535	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: $1,590
Rental protection (RPP): $238.50
Service fee: $159
Estimated total: $1,987.50

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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.