Purchased individual movie, now a box set is available

I bought a movie on iTunes last week and watched it immediately. I’m happy with the purchase, but the next day a box set was released which I would have bought instead.

if I now buy the box set, I will have paid for the same movie twice.

Is there a way to just pay the extra and get the additional movies?

Posted on Dec 21, 2021 12:15 PM

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muguy

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Dec 21, 2021 12:29 PM in response to mitch.ljw

Not usually, no. In my experience the box set is still typically less expensive than buying the 3, 4, 5, n films individually.

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