I've been constantly ignored from Stripe since they launched their beta in Mexico (actually way before that, I subscribed years before, when Stripe launched in the US). I can't do business with them because I'm not part of their secret club, while at the same many businesses here somehow get access and start using them. That feels like some kind of unfair competition.
I know, you are going to say, they are not obliged to provide service with you, but then, after reading the kind of PR they publish (like this one) you would feel like it, at least they should be morally obliged to stand by their word.
"Stripe Atlas is invite-only to start. ... You can apply directly or get a referral from one of our partners."
Oh ok, so another secret club, and this time the gatekeepers in Mexico are some guys named Antoni and Lelo de Larrea , which for you outside of Mexico, the Larrea family are a powerful group in Mexico that came to be through corruption, government favors and pretty much all the things you usually hate from Mexico. Remember when the miners in Chile were trapped and then rescued? The same thing happened at more or less the same time in Mexico, a lot of media coverage here in Mexico, the mining company owned by them, it was relatively cheap to rescue them but they decided not to do it, they let them die because it was not worth the money. And now I have to do business with those people if I want to process my payments?
Yeah, thanks Stripe, but no thanks.