When is it cheaper to rent a 26' Scissor Lift, #2 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $149 day rate would be $596, but the weekly rate caps it at $595.

When is it cheaper to rent a 26' Scissor Lift, #2 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,785 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.

26' Scissor Lift, #2

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Lifts - Scissor - Electric

Day: $149
Week: $595
28 days: $1,785

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $596. On the week rate it is $595.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,682. On the 28-day rate it is $1,785.

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 26' Scissor Lift, #2, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$149	$149	—	day
2	$298	$298	—	day
3	$447	$447	—	day
4	$596	$595	you save $1	week
5	$745	$595	you save $150	week
6	$894	$595	you save $299	week
7	$1,043	$595	you save $448	week
8	$1,192	$744	you save $448	week
9	$1,341	$893	you save $448	week
10	$1,490	$1,042	you save $448	week
11	$1,639	$1,190	you save $449	week
12	$1,788	$1,190	you save $598	week
13	$1,937	$1,190	you save $747	week
14	$2,086	$1,190	you save $896	week
15	$2,235	$1,339	you save $896	week
16	$2,384	$1,488	you save $896	week
17	$2,533	$1,637	you save $896	week
18	$2,682	$1,785	you save $897	28-day
19	$2,831	$1,785	you save $1,046	28-day
20	$2,980	$1,785	you save $1,195	28-day
21	$3,129	$1,785	you save $1,344	28-day
22	$3,278	$1,785	you save $1,493	28-day
23	$3,427	$1,785	you save $1,642	28-day
24	$3,576	$1,785	you save $1,791	28-day
25	$3,725	$1,785	you save $1,940	28-day
26	$3,874	$1,785	you save $2,089	28-day
27	$4,023	$1,785	you save $2,238	28-day
28	$4,172	$1,785	you save $2,387	28-day
29	$4,321	$1,934	you save $2,387	day
30	$4,470	$2,083	you save $2,387	day
31	$4,619	$2,232	you save $2,387	day
32	$4,768	$2,380	you save $2,388	week
33	$4,917	$2,380	you save $2,537	week
34	$5,066	$2,380	you save $2,686	week
35	$5,215	$2,380	you save $2,835	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.