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.

Bissell Big Green Professional Carpet Cleaner

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igor Ganapolsky

Day
$35
Week
$125
28 days
$420

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $140. On the week rate it is $125.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $805. On the 28-day rate it is $420.

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 Bissell Big Green Professional Carpet Cleaner, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$35$35—day
2$70$70—day
3$105$105—day
4$140$125you save $15week
5$175$125you save $50week
6$210$125you save $85week
7$245$125you save $120week
8$280$160you save $120week
9$315$195you save $120week
10$350$230you save $120week
11$385$250you save $135week
12$420$250you save $170week
13$455$250you save $205week
14$490$250you save $240week
15$525$285you save $240week
16$560$320you save $240week
17$595$355you save $240week
18$630$375you save $255week
19$665$375you save $290week
20$700$375you save $325week
21$735$375you save $360week
22$770$410you save $360week
23$805$420you save $38528-day
24$840$420you save $42028-day
25$875$420you save $45528-day
26$910$420you save $49028-day
27$945$420you save $52528-day
28$980$420you save $56028-day
29$1,015$455you save $560day
30$1,050$490you save $560day
31$1,085$525you save $560day
32$1,120$545you save $575week
33$1,155$545you save $610week
34$1,190$545you save $645week
35$1,225$545you save $680week

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.