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Due to the nature of many of the chemicals involved, it is highly recommended that you only purchase high quality glassware to reduce the chance of an accident. Since most reactions are small, this hopefully shouldn't hurt the bank.

Biased vendor review

I say biased because people have different experiences. TODO: add pictures and other data to backup my claim

Pyrex. Stay away from older glassware using green lettering as it tends to be less durable than modern glassware
Kimax
Ace
Kimble/Kontes

Moderate quality

Borosil: bubble free but surface had small distortions. I (JM) have not crossed polarizers to see if this is really an issue. In any case I imagine this would make it a little more difficult to clean

Stay away from these:

Bomex: glassware tends to have a lot of defects, in particular a large number of bubbles

Fluorinated plastics can be useful in a number of situations. They tend to be very clean, are heat resistant, chemically resistant, and have many other desirable properties. The most common type is PTFE (Teflon) although PFA gets used for wafer boats. See the Dupont website for a nice comparison chart.

Reference

Dupont fluoropolymer comparison: http://www2.dupont.com/Teflon_Industrial/en_US/tech_info/techinfo_compare.html