When is it cheaper to rent a '32' Scissor Lift, #2 by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $174 day rate would be $696, but the weekly rate caps it at $694.

When is it cheaper to rent a '32' Scissor Lift, #2 on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,082 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.

'32' Scissor Lift, #2

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Lifts - Scissor - Electric

Day: $174
Week: $694
28 days: $2,082

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $696. On the week rate it is $694.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $3,132. On the 28-day rate it is $2,082.

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 '32' Scissor Lift, #2, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$174	$174	—	day
2	$348	$348	—	day
3	$522	$522	—	day
4	$696	$694	you save $2	week
5	$870	$694	you save $176	week
6	$1,044	$694	you save $350	week
7	$1,218	$694	you save $524	week
8	$1,392	$868	you save $524	week
9	$1,566	$1,042	you save $524	week
10	$1,740	$1,216	you save $524	week
11	$1,914	$1,388	you save $526	week
12	$2,088	$1,388	you save $700	week
13	$2,262	$1,388	you save $874	week
14	$2,436	$1,388	you save $1,048	week
15	$2,610	$1,562	you save $1,048	week
16	$2,784	$1,736	you save $1,048	week
17	$2,958	$1,910	you save $1,048	week
18	$3,132	$2,082	you save $1,050	28-day
19	$3,306	$2,082	you save $1,224	28-day
20	$3,480	$2,082	you save $1,398	28-day
21	$3,654	$2,082	you save $1,572	28-day
22	$3,828	$2,082	you save $1,746	28-day
23	$4,002	$2,082	you save $1,920	28-day
24	$4,176	$2,082	you save $2,094	28-day
25	$4,350	$2,082	you save $2,268	28-day
26	$4,524	$2,082	you save $2,442	28-day
27	$4,698	$2,082	you save $2,616	28-day
28	$4,872	$2,082	you save $2,790	28-day
29	$5,046	$2,256	you save $2,790	day
30	$5,220	$2,430	you save $2,790	day
31	$5,394	$2,604	you save $2,790	day
32	$5,568	$2,776	you save $2,792	week
33	$5,742	$2,776	you save $2,966	week
34	$5,916	$2,776	you save $3,140	week
35	$6,090	$2,776	you save $3,314	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.