wow, that's a heck of a lot cheaper! I've never seen gopher cages, so I had no idea what the going price was. We don't have gopher problems here.. we have prairie dogs. They don't eat roses, though, but they do carry bubonic plague.
I may have to order some of those cages from your friend for my mom if she's going to live in the mountains of NM for long.. she has horrific gopher problems there.