When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat e20 Mini 2 ton Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $330 day rate would be $990, but the weekly rate caps it at $888.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat e20 Mini 2 ton Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,200 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 e20 Mini 2 ton Excavator

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colin moser · Excavators - Mini

Day: $330
Week: $888
28 days: $2,200

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $990. On the week rate it is $888.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $5,280. On the 28-day rate it is $2,200.

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 e20 Mini 2 ton Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$330	$330	—	day
2	$660	$660	—	day
3	$990	$888	you save $102	week
4	$1,320	$888	you save $432	week
5	$1,650	$888	you save $762	week
6	$1,980	$888	you save $1,092	week
7	$2,310	$888	you save $1,422	week
8	$2,640	$1,218	you save $1,422	week
9	$2,970	$1,548	you save $1,422	week
10	$3,300	$1,776	you save $1,524	week
11	$3,630	$1,776	you save $1,854	week
12	$3,960	$1,776	you save $2,184	week
13	$4,290	$1,776	you save $2,514	week
14	$4,620	$1,776	you save $2,844	week
15	$4,950	$2,106	you save $2,844	week
16	$5,280	$2,200	you save $3,080	28-day
17	$5,610	$2,200	you save $3,410	28-day
18	$5,940	$2,200	you save $3,740	28-day
19	$6,270	$2,200	you save $4,070	28-day
20	$6,600	$2,200	you save $4,400	28-day
21	$6,930	$2,200	you save $4,730	28-day
22	$7,260	$2,200	you save $5,060	28-day
23	$7,590	$2,200	you save $5,390	28-day
24	$7,920	$2,200	you save $5,720	28-day
25	$8,250	$2,200	you save $6,050	28-day
26	$8,580	$2,200	you save $6,380	28-day
27	$8,910	$2,200	you save $6,710	28-day
28	$9,240	$2,200	you save $7,040	28-day
29	$9,570	$2,530	you save $7,040	day
30	$9,900	$2,860	you save $7,040	day
31	$10,230	$3,088	you save $7,142	week
32	$10,560	$3,088	you save $7,472	week
33	$10,890	$3,088	you save $7,802	week
34	$11,220	$3,088	you save $8,132	week
35	$11,550	$3,088	you save $8,462	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.