Something you need to consider, is the initial modelling is just that.. the beginning. You need to have additional morphs modelled for body styles, and might also include additional style morphs for various different styles.

Modelling is half the job, and sometimes you need to do additional modelling or grouping to make something conform properly, as well as adding additional geometry to make additonal morphs or slternate styles possible.

Honestly, IMHO if you can't model, you shouldn't consider making content.

It would be like saying you are a wood worker, and making furniture from a walmart partical wood boxed kit.

That said, Figure $20 an hour for the least expensive modeller you can hire. If it takes them 16 hours to do all the required work, thats a cost of $320.

Rendo takes 50% of the sales money, so that dress example you posted would have to sell more than 100 copies to break even... not make a profit mind you, just to pay for the modelling.

And you then have to do all the textureing, bump and /or displacement mapping and packaging and promo work.

And some products only sell a handful of copies. I recall a top name vendor who only sold 30 of a completely new rigged figure (something MUCH more complex), and months later ended up giving it away free because the sales were so dismal.

Its been said only the the top 20% of vendors can make a living doing this. if that is true, then consider what the bottom 50% are making.

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.