Folding Carrying Cart, Luggage Cart with 2 Wheels One Way, Compact for Travel Small Mini Trolley for Light Duty School Business Bungee Cord

I really want some enterprising person to design a very compact dolly about this size. Not to transport a ton of stuff, within reason for the materials necessary for construction. This one isn't it. Waaay too flimsy, wheels wouldn't lock. Feels like it's about to break. It's like someone's beta version. Not ready for prime time. Please someone get their smart engineer kid to redesign this!!!

The media could not be loaded. Most of these reviews aren’t being fair because they are asking this little thing to be something it wasn’t designed to be.It was designed to be a small, inexpensive, foldable lightweight little luggage cart that folds up extremely small, fits into the bag it’s hauling, without taking up significant space and doesn’t add significant weight to your bag and can make carrying your bag a little easier when you need it.In order to do that, it naturally HAS to use lightweight parts that are inherently less robust.It is what it was designed to be.Could it use parts of higher quality without upping the weight or cost significantly? Probably. It’s not perfect. But it’s certainly not useless and the fact that it doesn’t do everything perfectly shouldn’t surprise.The pictures I’ve posted are of it carrying a Peak Design 30L travel duffel bag.It includes a small bungee cord that is helpful but if your bag doesn’t have a luggage pass through feature, you’ll find it difficult to balance and keep on the cart.Again, you shouldn’t expect it to be able to compete with full size luggage carts. Therefore…Would I be confident wheeling it through bumpy streets with a heavy bag? Of course not.Would I carry my child in car seat strapped to it like you could with a more robust less compact cart? No of course not.Would I expect it to last for years of rugged usage? No of course not.Would I expect it to easily be able to balance standing upright with a bag attached? Nope!BUT would I expect it to survive one or two vacations of occasional light usage if I have to carry a second bag for longer than I’d prefer. Sure!At the price, it doesn’t really have to last very long before you’d honestly have your moneys worth.It takes up very little room in your bag, folds up very small, and it not very heavy at all.I took a chance on this little thing because I really needed one. Even though the reviews weren’t great. I was pleasantly surprised. It’s what I needed.Now I HAVE NOT taken this on my vacation yet. Only around the house a bit. But I’m confident in what I’ve written above. At the price, it’s worth the risk anyway.

I cannot show a photo of the item because mid trip to Spain i trashed it. This product seemed like a perfect idea for a traveler like me who wanted something light weight and simple. I thought assembling would not be too hard; it only has a few steps. Well, it was less than easy and dis-assembling it and assembling it was not worth the time, and trouble of using it. While it came with directions, it looks practical and the price is right but, having to fight with the assembly is the opposite of what i was looking for. The item lasted until we got to Newark Airport prior to my trip. I used it once for 3 hours prior to our trip at the airport. We couldn't reassemble it after the security check .After much heated discussion with my husband regarding the item assembly we both agreed to cut our losses and trash it at Newark airport.If anyone can suggest a better small, low weight cart, please pass along any suggestions.

Say you have a heavy messenger bag and you don't want to have to carry it everywhere. To the untrained eye, this gadget seems like the perfect solution. Roll your bag around, and then pop the compact, folded hand truck into the bag. Perfect! You rub your hands in glee. Finally, you won't have to schlep around like the Hunchback of Notre Dame with your 40-lb bag slung over your shoulder.When you first get it, you of course will want to test it. Just a normal day--not zipping through a busy airport around other people and down escalators and such. Not walking all around town or through big parking garages. No, you'll use it to roll your bag from the house to the car (say, 35-45 feet) and then from the car to your office building (say, 150 feet) and up to your workstation via the elevator. That's all.As it's a folding hand truck that's going to be carrying a bag, you'll assume that during this test, it will fold up, unfold, carry your bag, roll, and stand by itself when not rolling. These seem like reasonable expectations.First off, you'll note in satisfaction that the bungee totally holds your bag securely to the hand truck. This bungee is definitely a go. You will have no problem keeping your bag firmly attached to the hand truck with it.Once the bag is attached, as you let go, the next feature you'll notice is that both your bag and the entire hand truck will fall forward and crash to the ground. That'll be due to the fact that the part that is supposed to be the "third leg" (acting in addition to the two wheels) is made to fold flat when the hand truck is folded. That is cool when you're folding the hand truck, but when you want the hand truck to be unfolded and stay upright, there's no way to lock that piece in place, so it will just randomly decide to fold back in whenever the mood hits it. Thanks to the reliable bungee that's holding your bag on, the weight of your bag will pull the entire hand truck forward, too.Therefore, once you get rolling, you'll soon learn that if you let go for any reason, your bag will possibly immediately flop into whatever rain puddle or grease smear is handy at the time. It's a crap shoot. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. An added bonus feature is that this foldout part also happens to be cheap plastic. And let me tell you, cheap plastic definitely does the job of crashing your bag to the ground at warp speed. None of that pesky hesitation that, say, a strong metal leg with a locking mechanism might have given you. No, siree, this thing is built to fall, and fall fast. Your $800 bag will soon be covered in road grit.Now let's move on to the rolling part. It starts out with a nice smooth roll, deceiving you into thinking that you'll have a great experience wafting across the parking lot like a ballroom dancer with your bag obediently in tow. Nothing could be further from the truth, however, as just when you get up to a decent speed, you'll get that sudden feeling of "shopping cart wheel with something stuck on it" which sends you skidding along until you stop to see what's going on.What's going on is that the wheels have turned inward so they no longer roll. And THAT, my friend, is the next important feature. You see, the wheels are made to fold flat, too — which in itself is pretty cool when stuffing the folded hand truck in your bag. However, when you want the cart to roll, you have to turn them at right angles, parallel to each other, and unfortunately, nothing really locks them into place that way.Now, I know what you're going to say. What about that little part that slots into the other little part to lock the wheels into place? Well, technically, those parts exist... but both of them are cheap, soft plastic, too. So they don't click neatly in place and stay there. They're not really committed. They slide vaguely around like people at a singles bar who haven't decided on a date yet. Sure, they're sitting in this booth now, but at the next opportunity, they'll slide out and go looking for something better. So, as you're rolling along, this wishy-washy plastic vaguely decides it doesn't want to stay locked, and the wheels gradually turn inward or outward, turning your bag into a rookie skier who can't get his skis in line long enough to get down the bunny slope. Or at least across the parking lot.As a result, this little baby goes from rolling to dragging in no time flat. You'll be amazed at how, just going across a small parking lot to the front door of the building and then into the elevator and across a short office space, your wheels will flip into "drag" mode and you'll have to stop and fix them three whole times (once while the UPS delivery guy is laughing at you from his van because, of course, as soon as you stop to see what's wrong, you let go and the whole thing crashes forward onto the ground into a pile of dust). But that bungee will definitely do its job as you finally just pick the bag up and carry it with the hand truck still attached, so you can at least make it to your desk before you have to leave again for lunch.Then there's the "lock" that supposedly fixes the base platform at a 90-degree angle when unfolded. That's plastic too. Not only does it not lock, it doesn't move much at all. Certainly not enough to do anything. You will play with it in puzzlement, looking at the vague drawing on the instructions, clearly showing it moving, and you'll notice there seems to be a slot for it to slide into, but alas, it's frozen in place like the awkward guy at the singles bar. Eventually, you'll realize this is the lock that's meant to hold the bottom platform in place, and the fact that it doesn't move (or lock) is probably a factor in helping your bag crash so quickly to the ground.But you'll be impressed with the two wire "wings" that pull out as a platform for your bag. These basically work fine. Know what they're made of? Metal. Metal is good. You'll stare at these and then the rest of the parts, pondering how it would be good if the locking parts were ALL made of this amazing stuff. It's strong, and stiff, and it actually holds things in place. Surely locking mechanisms that use metal would stay locked. And you'll wonder how the designers missed this concept.But you'll get a clue on that when examining the wheel "locks" (that don't lock) more closely because you'll be pretty sure whoever designed (or assembled) it was definitely drunk. The screws that hold the plastic pieces on aren't even screwed all the way in. They are sticking out like someone either used screws that are way too long for the parts, or like maybe just didn't want to totally commit.And at the end of the day, as you carry your bag to the car like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, with this hand truck folded neatly inside adding another pound or so of weight, you'll think maybe you don't want to totally commit, either. You'll wonder why you paid $43-plus for a folding hand truck that doesn't roll, doesn't stand up, and requires you to carry your bag everywhere. The only two things it is useful for are dumping your $800 bag into a puddle, and folding. It's very, very good at folding — even when you don't want it to. And it's also great at being carried in the bag it's supposed to carry. You'll wish you could keep the bungee, which never let you down... but alas, it's not worth the $43, and so you'll have to return it when you return the rest. And you will. Because there's got to be a better use for $43.