The funding will most likely make the premium worth less and the situation a little trickier. I'll be bidding if the price is right when it goes to auction.

Why?
Probably because it will exclude people who want to buy it unfunded and have less people interested in the piece because anyone can fund it once you have it but you cant unfund the piece once its on. And others like the piece as it was created. I think thats where digi was going with it.