Korvas when they offered to buy back XPYBiTS it was50% of the price originally paid hardly a good investment but now these Atom things produce Electrons, great if you have IONS to buy stakers that's all these Electrons are doing.
Not only that you have to pay a fee up front to sell them even if they don't sell, smart move even more btc for the btc hungry project, why not allow the Atom fees to sell be paid in IONs, if you are so confident this will work then it should not be a problem