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>does it truly take enough manhours that 300-400 bucks for a avatar is comparable to min wage
Depends on the avatar complexity. Honestly complete scratch work avatars take so much time that'd at the prices people charge you'd have to really know your craft to make it. Unless I'm starting from a base or something I can easily put in a week or two of my free time into making a crappy one. That works out to a pretty crappy hourly rate for customs, maybe the profit would be better net for selling props or something that multiple people buy. Not sure the breakdown.
That said if you're just piecing together work other people have done and slapping some glowing emission tattoos on it and charging those rates then yeah you'd turn mad profit for what would at worst be a couple hours of work.