I'd like to see examples that use the colors that are attached to the contest. #4 had nice gradient and shine appeal, but it was too much about the barcode and not enough about the name. #5 - I'm not sure what it is about this one, but the barcode stripes so strong behind the font w/o some sort of font border seems a little distracting. I like that you attempted to incorporate the coupon aspect & scissors. I think any entries that incorporate scissors should hide part of the scissor as if it is cutting into the logo
so far I think #12 is your best entry. I began questioning myself if I thought the letters of my site name should be completely encapsulated inside an object like a coupon or outside of any objects and I started leaning more to liking the text not so enclosed.
I also began thinking that maybe the scissors became "too much"
I think that if the concept for #12 is to work, i would like to see: 1. the font a little less scrunched up 2. the black circle in the center a little bigger 3. the word "in" to be centered inside the black circle, but no font color (transparently see that orange-ish color. (may consider "in" font a little smaller...not sure) 4. maybe since there is a circle in the center... perhaps the bottom of the logo could have a rounded outer look, like sesame street http://up6.podbean.com/image-logos/30941_logo.jpg and inside that add-on be a barcode-like pattern. If that was the case, i could envision the bottom rounded bar code piece extending taller than the 65pixel height, which would still have a nice look