When is it cheaper to rent a S650 Bobcat Skid Steer, #29 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $342 day rate would be $1,368, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,363.

When is it cheaper to rent a S650 Bobcat Skid Steer, #29 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,089 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.

S650 Bobcat Skid Steer, #29

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $342
Week: $1,363
28 days: $4,089

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,368. On the week rate it is $1,363.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $6,156. On the 28-day rate it is $4,089.

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 S650 Bobcat Skid Steer, #29, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$342	$342	—	day
2	$684	$684	—	day
3	$1,026	$1,026	—	day
4	$1,368	$1,363	you save $5	week
5	$1,710	$1,363	you save $347	week
6	$2,052	$1,363	you save $689	week
7	$2,394	$1,363	you save $1,031	week
8	$2,736	$1,705	you save $1,031	week
9	$3,078	$2,047	you save $1,031	week
10	$3,420	$2,389	you save $1,031	week
11	$3,762	$2,726	you save $1,036	week
12	$4,104	$2,726	you save $1,378	week
13	$4,446	$2,726	you save $1,720	week
14	$4,788	$2,726	you save $2,062	week
15	$5,130	$3,068	you save $2,062	week
16	$5,472	$3,410	you save $2,062	week
17	$5,814	$3,752	you save $2,062	week
18	$6,156	$4,089	you save $2,067	28-day
19	$6,498	$4,089	you save $2,409	28-day
20	$6,840	$4,089	you save $2,751	28-day
21	$7,182	$4,089	you save $3,093	28-day
22	$7,524	$4,089	you save $3,435	28-day
23	$7,866	$4,089	you save $3,777	28-day
24	$8,208	$4,089	you save $4,119	28-day
25	$8,550	$4,089	you save $4,461	28-day
26	$8,892	$4,089	you save $4,803	28-day
27	$9,234	$4,089	you save $5,145	28-day
28	$9,576	$4,089	you save $5,487	28-day
29	$9,918	$4,431	you save $5,487	day
30	$10,260	$4,773	you save $5,487	day
31	$10,602	$5,115	you save $5,487	day
32	$10,944	$5,452	you save $5,492	week
33	$11,286	$5,452	you save $5,834	week
34	$11,628	$5,452	you save $6,176	week
35	$11,970	$5,452	you save $6,518	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: $4,089
Rental protection (RPP): $613.35
Service fee: $408.90
Estimated total: $5,111.25

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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.