I know that this has been discussed, but on the Eve of the Storm I thought it was worth bringing up again
I was just at Best Buy and spoke to the Mobile manager and the rep from VZ was there. Their price (not retail) is 199.00. The NE2 is a Verizon promo and not honored by Best Buy (or the "premium retailer") by me.
It is solely up to the manager if they want to sell me the phone for $99.00, being the equivalent VZ price after my NE2.
I have my BB pre-order, and in my case, though initially hesitant, he assured me he will sell it to me for 99.
i work at a best buy mobile and we got our storms in today, we got a demo phone from verizon that i got to play with all night. at first i was a little skeptical but the more i played with it and got use to everything i really think im going to enjoy it