I suspect if I hadn't dismissed BIG because of my cusory view of their tech I would have invested in it. It really looked like they had found a money machine, and as the saying goes, cash never lies. It was pure chance that I missed buying in. I might have avoided BIG if I had read the prospectus, but that was from such a long time ago that I most likely would have not bothered. All of this is why BIG is such a big story for the ASX and ASIC.
I have a lot of sympathy for those who didn't read the prospectus and bought in on the basis of the cash results.