Hello, Sb, from Santa Barbara! This forum is a great place to find info. The Media section has some videos and interviews of Mark Perry, the Nissan person in charge of rolling out the LEAF. He is as reliable a source as any. You Tube also has lots of videos of him while on the tour.
Yesterday, I met with the Leaf Specialist at one of the Nissan dealerships in my city. He was able to look up all the area people who had paid their reservation fee. I was near the top of list since I did it at around 3 pm on April 20. I told him about this forum and he connected to it while I was there. He was glad to see a place where interested customers could go for into. I took him some business cards I had made with the name of the forum and the URL for him to give people. By the time our 30 minute meeting was over, he said he was going to put in his own $99 reservation.
He also told me that the roll out of the LEAF is unlike anything he has seen with Nissan in the 12 years he has been with them. He believes the price will be the MRSP.
Glad to see you here. Be sure to come back. We have seemed to have lost Jessica from Nissan Headquarters in Tennessee.