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Re:Ask HN: How are monopolies lost? by DanielBMarkham on Thursday September 18, 2008 @07:26AM (#308084)
I'm outsourcing to South America and I've been using PayPal.

There were a few other options, as I recall. A service called Payoneer, some others.

It used to be W.U. exclusively, but that's changed in the last ten years.

Re:Ask HN: How are monopolies lost? by davidw on Thursday September 18, 2008 @08:02AM (#308100)
> I'm outsourcing to South America and I've been using PayPal.

Sure, but that's not the group of people I was talking about, who generally go into a physical office, cash in hand, and want to send it somewhere else where someone can go pick up cash. WU isn't a complete monopoly in terms of sending money, obviously, but they still have a big chunk of the market. Actual facts would help the conversation, though:-)