I choose to outfit one of my bots with half an hour of AH shopping and forget about it. I have very specific goals for the gear I put on my bot, and it makes it on the expensive side when I just do buyouts. I am sure that the 60mil I spent on my last bot could have been done for 30mil if I had been patient with the auction house. My point was that the $6 I wasted is less valuable to me than the extra minutes I would spend sitting in front of the game.
Everyone here has different priorities. Some people want to make as much profit as possible, and for them, counting pennies is part of that goal. I personally don't have a lot of excess time, so I compromise. That $12 is insignificant when compared to the average profit of a bot before it is banned, and that waste percentage doesn't change no matter how many bots you multiply it by.
