When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E35i Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $550 day rate would be $1,650, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,500.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bobcat E35i Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 10. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,795 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.

Bobcat E35i Mini Excavator

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Shrey Mehta · Excavators - Mini

Day: $550
Week: $1,500
28 days: $2,795

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,650. On the week rate it is $1,500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 10

10 days at the day rate would be $5,500. On the 28-day rate it is $2,795.

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 Bobcat E35i Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$550	$550	—	day
2	$1,100	$1,100	—	day
3	$1,650	$1,500	you save $150	week
4	$2,200	$1,500	you save $700	week
5	$2,750	$1,500	you save $1,250	week
6	$3,300	$1,500	you save $1,800	week
7	$3,850	$1,500	you save $2,350	week
8	$4,400	$2,050	you save $2,350	week
9	$4,950	$2,600	you save $2,350	week
10	$5,500	$2,795	you save $2,705	28-day
11	$6,050	$2,795	you save $3,255	28-day
12	$6,600	$2,795	you save $3,805	28-day
13	$7,150	$2,795	you save $4,355	28-day
14	$7,700	$2,795	you save $4,905	28-day
15	$8,250	$2,795	you save $5,455	28-day
16	$8,800	$2,795	you save $6,005	28-day
17	$9,350	$2,795	you save $6,555	28-day
18	$9,900	$2,795	you save $7,105	28-day
19	$10,450	$2,795	you save $7,655	28-day
20	$11,000	$2,795	you save $8,205	28-day
21	$11,550	$2,795	you save $8,755	28-day
22	$12,100	$2,795	you save $9,305	28-day
23	$12,650	$2,795	you save $9,855	28-day
24	$13,200	$2,795	you save $10,405	28-day
25	$13,750	$2,795	you save $10,955	28-day
26	$14,300	$2,795	you save $11,505	28-day
27	$14,850	$2,795	you save $12,055	28-day
28	$15,400	$2,795	you save $12,605	28-day
29	$15,950	$3,345	you save $12,605	day
30	$16,500	$3,895	you save $12,605	day
31	$17,050	$4,295	you save $12,755	week
32	$17,600	$4,295	you save $13,305	week
33	$18,150	$4,295	you save $13,855	week
34	$18,700	$4,295	you save $14,405	week
35	$19,250	$4,295	you save $14,955	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.