Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Ryobi Battery Drill and Drill Set with Battery and Charger by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $18.70 day rate would be $112.20, but the weekly rate caps it at $102.

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Ryobi Battery Drill and Drill Set with Battery and Charger on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $255 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

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.

Ryobi Battery Drill and Drill Set with Battery and Charger

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Steve Miller · Drills - Electric

Day: $18.70
Week: $102
28 days: $255

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $112.20. On the week rate it is $102.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $317.90. On the 28-day rate it is $255.

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 Ryobi Battery Drill and Drill Set with Battery and Charger, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$18.70	$18.70	—	day
2	$37.40	$37.40	—	day
3	$56.10	$56.10	—	day
4	$74.80	$74.80	—	day
5	$93.50	$93.50	—	day
6	$112.20	$102	you save $10.20	week
7	$130.90	$102	you save $28.90	week
8	$149.60	$120.70	you save $28.90	week
9	$168.30	$139.40	you save $28.90	week
10	$187	$158.10	you save $28.90	week
11	$205.70	$176.80	you save $28.90	week
12	$224.40	$195.50	you save $28.90	week
13	$243.10	$204	you save $39.10	week
14	$261.80	$204	you save $57.80	week
15	$280.50	$222.70	you save $57.80	week
16	$299.20	$241.40	you save $57.80	week
17	$317.90	$255	you save $62.90	28-day
18	$336.60	$255	you save $81.60	28-day
19	$355.30	$255	you save $100.30	28-day
20	$374	$255	you save $119	28-day
21	$392.70	$255	you save $137.70	28-day
22	$411.40	$255	you save $156.40	28-day
23	$430.10	$255	you save $175.10	28-day
24	$448.80	$255	you save $193.80	28-day
25	$467.50	$255	you save $212.50	28-day
26	$486.20	$255	you save $231.20	28-day
27	$504.90	$255	you save $249.90	28-day
28	$523.60	$255	you save $268.60	28-day
29	$542.30	$273.70	you save $268.60	day
30	$561	$292.40	you save $268.60	day
31	$579.70	$311.10	you save $268.60	day
32	$598.40	$329.80	you save $268.60	day
33	$617.10	$348.50	you save $268.60	day
34	$635.80	$357	you save $278.80	week
35	$654.50	$357	you save $297.50	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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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.