How to Get a Cheap Logo for your Business

There are many affordable ways to get a corporate identity. Wired Magazine recently conducted a test of some cheap logo providers. They invented a company and asked online shops to create a logo for them. Unfortunately the online version of the article Grading the logo shops does not show the logos they came up with.
The top 3 were these (all comments are from Wired):
- The Logo Company
Service: Three business days; $75. Fast and easy. Ordering was a breeze, and they gave us four decent, relevant designs.
[You can see examples of their work here on the left.]
Grade: B+
- The Logo Loft
Service: Four business days and four options; $99. Sue, the customer service rep, called - called! - to clarify our order.
Grade: B
UPDATE 4/07: A client has had a negative experience with this company recently
- Logo Design Creation
Service: Overnight; $69. Placed the order at the end of one day and got three logos to choose from the next morning. Hey, we are living in the future!
Grade: B-
Gotlogos which I mentioned in the post Making small business look big, cheaply, only got a C+ because
Can't call customer service. Charged an extra $50 for a hi-res digital file of our logo.
