Very true.
There's a guy selling an Epiphone Explorer Bass for £550 in the Marketplace, when he brought two Epiphones (Explorer and Thunderbird) for £75. Crazy!
I like the irony here, as she plays a SX copy of a Fender. Though no Chrome's or dimarzio pups, hipshot tuners, so other than the colour isn't an artist bass at all.
I've tried that before. Sometimes the silk is intertwined into the string at manufacturing, making it difficult to remove.
I've ordered what I hope is the correct nuts to do the job.