I think the $250 price point is to deter scalping for "seats."
Ultraviolet, I'm not really sure what you mean, other than they set the price so high so that no one will pay the crazy scalper's price that the scalper would have to charge to make money off these seats? I agree, scalpers are going to have a very hard time unloading these seats and making any money. But that I don't get, is why assign relatively crappy seats this high of a price point?
What I also don't get is how they decided which seats are worth $250, and which are worth $30 (a huge amount of money difference), when there doesn't seem to be that huge of difference between the seats. For $250 a seat, I expect to to be in the first 25 rows of any section, and that section should be relatively close to stage. Maybe my expectations are unrealistic, but I don't think so. $250 for one seat for a 2 hour show is a hell of a lot of money! That's not to say I won't pay it of course, that's what sucks!