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It's a real jungle out there and you have to be cunning when it comes to accesories I think Michelle. I bought a C11 a while back and it came with a celestron 40mm EP. I looked around soon after and bought a pair of cheap GSO superviews, a 20mm & a 50mm 2" at $50 each, then a jap 13mm for $180 (reduced to half price) then a meade 9mm plossil for $120. There a good mix and the expensive ones give better views than the cheap ones but since those ones are all high magnification I don't use them nearly as much. I find that I use the 40mm celestron that I got with the scope most of the time. It gives the best overall view, though it does have a qwerk, you have to keep your eye dead centre or I get a kidney bean effect.
It's good to have a range but it seems that all the EP sets bar the most expensive have ones in them that are really just ordinary and like most have said above, you probably wont end up using them all. A waste of money in other words. I'd read around, read reviews and pick only the best ones from these ranges. I bought the 20mm GSO superview because I had looked through one at saturn and it was ok but when I put it to use on deep sky objects it was flat and lifeless. The 50mm though was very nice, gave a true 3D sort of effect like I get from my 40mm so I was happy with that one.
It's all very confusing at first I found so I'd say take your time and look around.
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