When is it cheaper to rent a Firstgreen Elise Electric Skid Steer Loader by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $450 day rate would be $1,800, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,580.

When is it cheaper to rent a Firstgreen Elise Electric Skid Steer Loader on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,740 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.

Firstgreen Elise Electric Skid Steer Loader

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Alex Craig · Loaders - Skid Steers

Day: $450
Week: $1,580
28 days: $4,740

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,800. On the week rate it is $1,580.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $8,100. On the 28-day rate it is $4,740.

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 Firstgreen Elise Electric Skid Steer Loader, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$450	$450	—	day
2	$900	$900	—	day
3	$1,350	$1,350	—	day
4	$1,800	$1,580	you save $220	week
5	$2,250	$1,580	you save $670	week
6	$2,700	$1,580	you save $1,120	week
7	$3,150	$1,580	you save $1,570	week
8	$3,600	$2,030	you save $1,570	week
9	$4,050	$2,480	you save $1,570	week
10	$4,500	$2,930	you save $1,570	week
11	$4,950	$3,160	you save $1,790	week
12	$5,400	$3,160	you save $2,240	week
13	$5,850	$3,160	you save $2,690	week
14	$6,300	$3,160	you save $3,140	week
15	$6,750	$3,610	you save $3,140	week
16	$7,200	$4,060	you save $3,140	week
17	$7,650	$4,510	you save $3,140	week
18	$8,100	$4,740	you save $3,360	28-day
19	$8,550	$4,740	you save $3,810	28-day
20	$9,000	$4,740	you save $4,260	28-day
21	$9,450	$4,740	you save $4,710	28-day
22	$9,900	$4,740	you save $5,160	28-day
23	$10,350	$4,740	you save $5,610	28-day
24	$10,800	$4,740	you save $6,060	28-day
25	$11,250	$4,740	you save $6,510	28-day
26	$11,700	$4,740	you save $6,960	28-day
27	$12,150	$4,740	you save $7,410	28-day
28	$12,600	$4,740	you save $7,860	28-day
29	$13,050	$5,190	you save $7,860	day
30	$13,500	$5,640	you save $7,860	day
31	$13,950	$6,090	you save $7,860	day
32	$14,400	$6,320	you save $8,080	week
33	$14,850	$6,320	you save $8,530	week
34	$15,300	$6,320	you save $8,980	week
35	$15,750	$6,320	you save $9,430	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: $4,740
Rental protection (RPP): $711
Service fee: $474
Estimated total: $5,925

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The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

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.