When is it cheaper to rent a 2018 Bobcat E20 Mini Excavator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $350 day rate would be $1,400, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,397.

When is it cheaper to rent a 2018 Bobcat E20 Mini Excavator on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $4,200 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.

2018 Bobcat E20 Mini Excavator

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T.J. Reed · Excavators - Mini

Day: $350
Week: $1,397
28 days: $4,200

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,400. On the week rate it is $1,397.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $7,700. On the 28-day rate it is $4,200.

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 2018 Bobcat E20 Mini Excavator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$350	$350	—	day
2	$700	$700	—	day
3	$1,050	$1,050	—	day
4	$1,400	$1,397	you save $3	week
5	$1,750	$1,397	you save $353	week
6	$2,100	$1,397	you save $703	week
7	$2,450	$1,397	you save $1,053	week
8	$2,800	$1,747	you save $1,053	week
9	$3,150	$2,097	you save $1,053	week
10	$3,500	$2,447	you save $1,053	week
11	$3,850	$2,794	you save $1,056	week
12	$4,200	$2,794	you save $1,406	week
13	$4,550	$2,794	you save $1,756	week
14	$4,900	$2,794	you save $2,106	week
15	$5,250	$3,144	you save $2,106	week
16	$5,600	$3,494	you save $2,106	week
17	$5,950	$3,844	you save $2,106	week
18	$6,300	$4,191	you save $2,109	week
19	$6,650	$4,191	you save $2,459	week
20	$7,000	$4,191	you save $2,809	week
21	$7,350	$4,191	you save $3,159	week
22	$7,700	$4,200	you save $3,500	28-day
23	$8,050	$4,200	you save $3,850	28-day
24	$8,400	$4,200	you save $4,200	28-day
25	$8,750	$4,200	you save $4,550	28-day
26	$9,100	$4,200	you save $4,900	28-day
27	$9,450	$4,200	you save $5,250	28-day
28	$9,800	$4,200	you save $5,600	28-day
29	$10,150	$4,550	you save $5,600	day
30	$10,500	$4,900	you save $5,600	day
31	$10,850	$5,250	you save $5,600	day
32	$11,200	$5,597	you save $5,603	week
33	$11,550	$5,597	you save $5,953	week
34	$11,900	$5,597	you save $6,303	week
35	$12,250	$5,597	you save $6,653	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.