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The attraction of Delphi Classics is the value-add they provide by hunting down a lot of bonus features incorporating them into their "complete public domain works" editions of author's stuff, with good organization and navigable chapters and such. I know I'm certainly not going to bother finding 5 different translations of the Aeneid, much less assemble them into a mega-omnibus with an interlinear Latin-English version.
And they do correct typos and keep adding additional materials as they surface to their existing editions at no extra cost to the original customer, as you can see from their updates page. Sadly, the first of these things is a service one cannot expect from publishers of completely new works being sold at more than triple the price.
So overall, while typos may be disappointing, they do try to fix them and I'd say that the Delphi Classics are worth the price, though I personally would only pick them up during coupon sales because I just don't like mega-omnibuses to begin with (and they could do with a bit more NCX nesting to give better navigation of books-within-books, but that's something I can add myself if I really feel like it).
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