In northern China, calling someone “250” is to say the
person is nuts.

Pricing something at 250 is a faux pas.

Answer
Question
The price isn't right

Carl’s employees in Beijing objected to pricing a
product at 250 yuan.

It is not that the price was too high -- in fact they
all agreed it was a tremendous value.

Why did they object?
Cultural Faux Pas #2
Learn from the mistakes of others