Moving bin rental sits in a weird pricing gap. It's cheaper than hiring movers, more than buying boxes from Home Depot, and the actual math depends on your home size, how long you take, and how many trips your friends with the truck want to make. Here's the honest version, with the line items most pricing pages don't show you.
Bundle pricing
Settled prices by home size: $129 for a studio (15 bins, 1 dolly), $179 for a one-bedroom (25 bins, 2 dollies), $249 for a two-bedroom, scaling up to $519 for a 5+ bedroom (100 bins, 5 dollies). Each bundle includes a one-week rental, free delivery, and free pickup at the new address. Compared to buying ~25 cardboard boxes for a one-bedroom (about $80-100 plus tape, plus the time you'll never get back), reusable bins land slightly more expensive than cardboard but with a different value calculation.
Delivery, pickup, and the per-mile fee
Delivery is free up to 25 miles from the city center. Beyond that, it's a small per-mile fee that's transparent at checkout — $1.50/mile, no last-minute add-ons. Pickup is always free, anywhere within the standard service radius. If you're moving across our coverage area (Cincinnati to Mason, say), there's no extra fee — both sides count as in-radius.
Extensions
Need the bins longer than a week? Extensions run roughly 25-30% of the bundle price per additional week. Most movers don't need it; if you do, it's a tap in the app — no calls, no fees beyond the line item. Renting through the second week of a slow corporate relo? You're at roughly $230 instead of $179 for a one-bedroom. Manageable.
What's not in the price
The line we'd push back on with our own pricing page: damage and missing-bin costs. Normal wear is on us. The first damaged or missing bin at pickup is on us; the rest are billed at cost ($45/bin), which is the manufacturer cost we pay. We don't markup damage. That's not generosity — it's the economics of operating a fleet of reusable bins; we'd rather have customers think of us as fair than pad damage as revenue.
Hidden fees that don't exist
We've seen competitors charge for: (a) delivery time-windows narrower than 4 hours, (b) sanitation, (c) wardrobe bins as a separate add-on, (d) packing tape (literally), (e) emergency-pickup. We don't charge for any of those. Sanitation is included. Wardrobe bins are part of the bundle if you reserve them. We don't include or sell tape.
Where the real savings show up
It's not the dollars on the receipt — it's the time you don't spend assembling, taping, sourcing, breaking down, and recycling. A typical Settled customer reports moving in roughly half the calendar time they used to need with cardboard. Add the absence of damaged items (our breakage rate is roughly 30% lower than cardboard, by our internal incident logs), the absence of the cardboard pile, and the slight environmental upside, and the math usually works out within the first move and decisively within the second.
Comparison: cardboard vs. Settled, one-bedroom move
- Cardboard: 25 boxes ($80) + 4 rolls of tape ($15) + Sharpies + your time hunting down boxes (priceless) = roughly $95-120 + 90 min of acquisition + 60 min of breakdown
- Settled: $179 bundle + zero acquisition time + zero breakdown time + free delivery and pickup
- Net: Settled is ~$60-85 more than cardboard, you save 2.5 hours, you don't have a recycling pile, and your plates are less likely to break in transit
If your hourly rate is anything north of $25/hr, the math obviously favors bins. If it's below that, cardboard might still be the rational choice — but you'll feel the difference in stress, mess, and the cardboard pile in your driveway for a week.
