When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E-20 mini excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $200 day rate would be $1,200, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,100.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E-20 mini excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,900 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.

Bobcat E-20 mini excavator

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Anthony Baker · Excavators - Mini

Day: $200
Week: $1,100
28 days: $2,900

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the week rate it is $1,100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $3,600. On the 28-day rate it is $2,900.

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 Bobcat E-20 mini excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$200	$200	—	day
2	$400	$400	—	day
3	$600	$600	—	day
4	$800	$800	—	day
5	$1,000	$1,000	—	day
6	$1,200	$1,100	you save $100	week
7	$1,400	$1,100	you save $300	week
8	$1,600	$1,300	you save $300	week
9	$1,800	$1,500	you save $300	week
10	$2,000	$1,700	you save $300	week
11	$2,200	$1,900	you save $300	week
12	$2,400	$2,100	you save $300	week
13	$2,600	$2,200	you save $400	week
14	$2,800	$2,200	you save $600	week
15	$3,000	$2,400	you save $600	week
16	$3,200	$2,600	you save $600	week
17	$3,400	$2,800	you save $600	week
18	$3,600	$2,900	you save $700	28-day
19	$3,800	$2,900	you save $900	28-day
20	$4,000	$2,900	you save $1,100	28-day
21	$4,200	$2,900	you save $1,300	28-day
22	$4,400	$2,900	you save $1,500	28-day
23	$4,600	$2,900	you save $1,700	28-day
24	$4,800	$2,900	you save $1,900	28-day
25	$5,000	$2,900	you save $2,100	28-day
26	$5,200	$2,900	you save $2,300	28-day
27	$5,400	$2,900	you save $2,500	28-day
28	$5,600	$2,900	you save $2,700	28-day
29	$5,800	$3,100	you save $2,700	day
30	$6,000	$3,300	you save $2,700	day
31	$6,200	$3,500	you save $2,700	day
32	$6,400	$3,700	you save $2,700	day
33	$6,600	$3,900	you save $2,700	day
34	$6,800	$4,000	you save $2,800	week
35	$7,000	$4,000	you save $3,000	week

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.