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.

Kobalt Tool Set

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Alec McBride

Day
$25
Week
$80
28 days
$210

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $100. On the week rate it is $80.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $400. On the 28-day rate it is $210.

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 Kobalt Tool Set, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$25$25—day
2$50$50—day
3$75$75—day
4$100$80you save $20week
5$125$80you save $45week
6$150$80you save $70week
7$175$80you save $95week
8$200$105you save $95week
9$225$130you save $95week
10$250$155you save $95week
11$275$160you save $115week
12$300$160you save $140week
13$325$160you save $165week
14$350$160you save $190week
15$375$185you save $190week
16$400$210you save $19028-day
17$425$210you save $21528-day
18$450$210you save $24028-day
19$475$210you save $26528-day
20$500$210you save $29028-day
21$525$210you save $31528-day
22$550$210you save $34028-day
23$575$210you save $36528-day
24$600$210you save $39028-day
25$625$210you save $41528-day
26$650$210you save $44028-day
27$675$210you save $46528-day
28$700$210you save $49028-day
29$725$235you save $490day
30$750$260you save $490day
31$775$285you save $490day
32$800$290you save $510week
33$825$290you save $535week
34$850$290you save $560week
35$875$290you save $585week

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.