If you're looking for cheap step ladders you have two choices. You can consider all the ladders that are cheap simply because they offer fewer features than others or have lower quality materials, or you can choose step ladders that are higher quality but come at a cheaper price because you've ordered them online from a wholesale or discount dealer. Keep in mind, however, that if you go the latter ladder route, you'll want to choose a site that offers free shipping. Otherwise, getting that heavy but cheap step ladder to you may eat up your savings.
You might also find it very helpful to search for cheap step ladders on some of the top search engine shopping portals, where you can view the list of cheap step ladders by scrolling, or request a side by side comparison of those that interest you most.
For example, we went to the shopping portal of one of the largest search engines and asked for a look at step ladders. The choices were in the hundreds. We asked to sort by price. Keep in mind that on a high volume, high trafficked Web search engine site you can get some pretty silly results. We found oil paintings of step ladders and little ladders for parakeet cages. So, it took a little scrolling to get started - still easier than traveling around town and making notes about who offers what for how much and then traveling back to the location of our first choice.
But we soon chose three cheap step ladders we liked, and realized that for the additional $5 off the highest priced step ladder we had one that folded away easily in our tiny apartment. Maybe not the cheapest but still one of the cheap step ladders.