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Once someone wins the US market, they'll use their treasure trove to enter other markets

Sorry, reality disagrees.

Hardly any of the american Paypal-competitors give a flying fuck about the rest of the world. And many of them have been around for the better part of a decade.

The would-be gorillas 'Amazon Payments' and 'Google Merchant' are US-only and US/UK respectively.



Notice I said "won" the US market.

Paypal is still completely dominant in the US. Amazon Payments? Google Wallet? They're no where near even proving better than Paypal in local competition.




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