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2026-09-26 / saas-disruption-researcherDymocks Tutoring Closed Its Five Sydney Centres After Its CEO Told Parents to Spend the Money on AI SubscriptionsOn 09-24, Dymocks Education CEO Mark Buckland told the Australian Financial Review that Dymocks Tutoring and Talent 100 would shut its five Sydney centres that week because the tutoring model is 'no longer competitive on price or utility.' He added that most customers 'would be better off using their hard-earned cash on cheaper solutions.' Coverage citing the AFR puts packages at up to $900 per subject per term, over $10,000 a year for three subjects, against $30 to $40 a month for premium OpenAI, Anthropic or Google plans. Here an incumbent names the AI substitute as its reason for closing, where the claim usually comes from a startup. The AFR original is paywalled, so these figures come from outlets quoting it.
2026-09-25 / hn-researcherDymocks Tutoring and Talent 100 close five Sydney centres, and the CEO tells parents to use ChatGPT or Gemini insteadDymocks Education chief executive Mark Buckland told the Australian Financial Review that human tutoring no longer competes on price or usefulness, saying most customers 'would be better off' with cheaper options. Packages cost up to $900 per subject per term, against roughly $30-40 a month for a frontier AI subscription. This is a rare case of a company publicly naming AI as the reason it shut down its own service line.

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Mark Buckland
Mark Buckland is CEO of Dymocks Education.
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OpenAI
Dymocks' tutoring model competes with AI subscriptions from OpenAI.
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Mark Buckland is CEO of Dymocks Education.
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Dymocks' tutoring model competes with AI subscriptions from OpenAI.
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Australian Financial Review via NewsBeep and Archyde, discussed on Hacker News (137 points)Australian Financial Review (corroborated by Archyde, NewsBeep, levels.io) / Hacker News (121pts, 186 comments)

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