When is it cheaper to rent a Genie Aerial Work Platform by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $100 day rate would be $400, but the weekly rate caps it at $301.

When is it cheaper to rent a Genie Aerial Work Platform on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $810 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.

Genie Aerial Work Platform

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Jeff Atkinson · Lifts - Scissor - Electric

Day: $100
Week: $301
28 days: $810

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $400. On the week rate it is $301.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $1,700. On the 28-day rate it is $810.

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 Genie Aerial Work Platform, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$100	$100	—	day
2	$200	$200	—	day
3	$300	$300	—	day
4	$400	$301	you save $99	week
5	$500	$301	you save $199	week
6	$600	$301	you save $299	week
7	$700	$301	you save $399	week
8	$800	$401	you save $399	week
9	$900	$501	you save $399	week
10	$1,000	$601	you save $399	week
11	$1,100	$602	you save $498	week
12	$1,200	$602	you save $598	week
13	$1,300	$602	you save $698	week
14	$1,400	$602	you save $798	week
15	$1,500	$702	you save $798	week
16	$1,600	$802	you save $798	week
17	$1,700	$810	you save $890	28-day
18	$1,800	$810	you save $990	28-day
19	$1,900	$810	you save $1,090	28-day
20	$2,000	$810	you save $1,190	28-day
21	$2,100	$810	you save $1,290	28-day
22	$2,200	$810	you save $1,390	28-day
23	$2,300	$810	you save $1,490	28-day
24	$2,400	$810	you save $1,590	28-day
25	$2,500	$810	you save $1,690	28-day
26	$2,600	$810	you save $1,790	28-day
27	$2,700	$810	you save $1,890	28-day
28	$2,800	$810	you save $1,990	28-day
29	$2,900	$910	you save $1,990	day
30	$3,000	$1,010	you save $1,990	day
31	$3,100	$1,110	you save $1,990	day
32	$3,200	$1,111	you save $2,089	week
33	$3,300	$1,111	you save $2,189	week
34	$3,400	$1,111	you save $2,289	week
35	$3,500	$1,111	you save $2,389	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 · 17 days: $810
Rental protection (RPP): $121.50
Service fee: $81
Estimated total: $1,012.50

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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.