I've been doing tech in Poland since ~2002 and it's not true. We had a counterpart for I think every single US-based service, but most sites didn't survive the

I've been doing tech in Poland since ~2002 and it's not true. We had a counterpart for I think every single US-based service, but most sites didn't survive the competition. Right now only eBay failed to enter our market (they tried, but the local Allegro won out). Personally, I'm not the fan of the local copycats - because of their local scale they couldn't really get enough profit/investment to grow the tech just as much. But still - at least in Poland, it's not true that there were no substitutes.