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I worked at a game store for a few months.
It's true that there are all sorts of sales quotas that the store managers have to make, some of which are more manageable than others. These store managers then divide the quotas they get among their employees, and you've got a bunch of people who would really, really like you to pre-order something, buy 10 used games in the same transaction, and subscribe to their magazine.
It may have been company policy to only sell DS units as part of a package. On the other hand, the store workers may have bait and switched you into a multiple sales transaction. Look on your receipt. If it lists the package as one item, you didn't get duped. If the DS and the Mario game and whatever else are listed as separate items, then you did your part in fulfilling their quota and got a fast one pulled on you.
As for the "last one in stock", I'd bet that they lied to you about that one. I didn't work at EB, but at the place I did, we kept all of our pre-orders either in the storeroom or locked behind the counter in something opaque. It's possible that all the other ones were pre-ordered out, but if they were in plain sight to customers, I doubt it.
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