R-457MN WH Fanfret : I cannot recommend, critical issue

I won't be covering the fretboard, body, finish and pickups in this review because these are the quality I expected from a ~200$ guitar.

My problem is with the way it handles strings (you will understand)

on both the .09 - .54 strings the guitar came with and a .10 - .56 I bought as a replacement the high E string snapped while tuning (I switch between Drop G and Drop A quite often) and the low B string just splits while playing, both of these phenomenons happen right at the nut, so I will assume that the nut is the issue.

Other than this ground-breaking issue, the guitar is decent (for 200$), but I can't recommend it.

I will not be returning it as it is my only and first electric guitar, but this has left me a bad opinion on Harley Benton and I will be more careful when buying from them. (I am still very much interested in the 30" baritone jazzmaster)