Niche Switch

Hot off the press: PayPal users in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Thailand will be able to receive funds into their PayPal accounts as well as withdraw them to a local bank account as of September 14th, 2006.
This will have an impact (though supposedly low) on directory business, and seo and sem industry in general, as plenty of people in the field come from the above countries, especially from Poland, and Paypal is the prevalent payment type for directory transactions. I guess some of the Polish free directories will turn to paid one, and maybe we could expect the coders behind one or two directory scripts, to come with Paypal payments extension and subsequently, release their script to the English speaking market. Not a direct corollary, but closely related after few longer thoughts (Paypal integration with English interface I mean).

People from many other countries are still prevented from the ability to receive money by Paypal, they can only use it for payments. In light of the extension over above named countries, the question is why for example Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Cyprus or South Africa, were not included in the extension batch.