Yeah one corporate client of mine has paid oDesk's[1] $3000 "disintermediation fee" just so that we could switch to working directly on their standard vendor co

Yeah one corporate client of mine has paid oDesk's[1] $3000 "disintermediation fee" just so that we could switch to working directly on their standard vendor contract with wire transfers and invoices. [1] before oDesk and Elance merged into Upwork