These are apparently part of the deal between Indicator/Powerhouse and Permanencia Voluntaria. Here's the article that discusses this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/29/archive-reviving-mexican-popular-cinema-permanencia-voluntaria
Not to be a stickler, but the Midsomer Murders issues are SERIES 16 and 17. SETS 16 and 17 were issued several years ago. It looks like they stopped releasing the SETS at Set 25 in favor of the SERIES volumes.
The SETS were the episodes released in (roughly) chronological order, usually...
This is a re-release of I Love Lucy (still by Paramount). Amazon lists the release date of seasons 5-9 as Nov 6, 2012. If Target has them this week, then it probably IS a Target exclusive. The release date of seasons 1-4 is Oct 9, 2012. The packaging has definitely changed. I don't know if...
Actually, I got a reply the next day:
"All MSRP prices are provided to us by the manufacturer and unfortunately we are not authorized to make any changes that they have not formally requested. We apologize for the inconvenience."
So unless we can get Sony to send them a correction, we're out...
We're also going to have to be careful about what dd uses for "List Price". For example, they list "Three Stooges Collection 7" as having a list price of $29.95. All other stores list it as $24.96. I just emailed them about this.
In the past, I've seen complaints about dd's prices rising...