You have to be off line for the sims store patch to kick in. This has happened to me more than once! Try opening your launcher at desktop and see if the notice for the store patch shows up.
I tried this as you suggested numerous times and nothing 😕mileysad: I guess I'l have to take this as a loss and just window shop at the the sims 3 store for now on lol. Thanks guys.
This is the only thing that I found: http://sims3.crinrict.com/en/2013/02/store-content-patch-v-2-2-available.html
EDIT: I found something very interesting here: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/15/645297.page (6 posts down) where she said it popped up when she opened the downloads dashboard in game?
