Worst experience ever!!!

They offered me a vehicle which I liked. I send a friend to have a look at the car as I live in Mpumalanga. He gave me thumps up so I paid a holding deposit of R 10k just to find out the next day that they have sold it to someone else. I´ve bought my plane ticket already to fly from Nelspruit to Johannesburg next week to fetch the car. The response from Mike Thomas: "Well someone got it first!!!" Really ! - why ask for a holding deposit if you still sell it to the next customer! Just pathetic!