Good newbie orchid advice

Someone posted this second-hand to the Orchid Digest list, and it contains some very good advice for would-be and beginner orchid enthusiasts:

• E-Bay
  is a good place to get things that interest you as long as you are
  willing to take a chance on getting a rotting weed from an unscrupulous
  vendor.
• Home Depot’s death table is not a good deal at any time.  Unless
  of course, it is a REALLY good bargain and it looks like it might have
  half a chance.
• If you have only one orchid that someone gave you, do not promise
  to get it a “companion” if it is so kind as to bloom again.  There is
  no such thing as owning two orchid plants – there is one, or there is
  the path to perdition.  Of course, maybe after the first one it is
  already too late.
• I learned that I need to find new homes for the plants with
  less-desirable qualities.  My space ran out long ago and I need to
  recapture it.  Out with the deformed, non-blooming, sickly, and
  less-than-gorgeous.  In with plants that have beautiful, fragrant and
  long-lasting blooms.