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It is a shame that not even Amazon is challenging PayPal's monopoly in Europe. Neither Amazon DevPay nor Amazon Simple Pay is available in Europe, and Google Checkout is only available in the UK.

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Amazon doesn't strike me as being the best of the bunch in terms of i18n, really. Here in Italy, their presence is kind of limited in terms of countries/languages where they are present: only Germany, France and UK. Granted, it's more difficult for a company trucking in physical products to move into new markets, but they seem to be taking their sweet time about it.

Google is a bit better, but still strikes me as very US-centric in some ways.

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