Ovi Store had capacity problems on the day it launched as demand for the service apparently far exceeded Nokia's estimates, but they seem to have cured that and Ovi Store now loads reliably. However, another problem has appeared which is rather annoying and frustrating: some items seem to be disappearing and reappearing at random. All too often people click on a game, app or other content and are greeted with the message "Sorry, this item is no longer available." even when it should be available. Let's take a look at the availability problems one by one, hopefully someone high up at Nokia is reading this.

 - Some games appear in search results but clicking on them produces the message "Sorry, this item is no longer available." For example searching for "chop sushi" lists a game by THQ, but trying to visit that game's page gives us the oh-so-familiar error message.

 - Some games' pages are accessible in certain countries but not others. For example one of our readers has reported that visiting the Katamari Mobile page in the UK gives a "Sorry, this item is no longer available." message, whereas here in Finland the same page at the same URL works fine.

 - Some games' pages used to work fine but now don't work any more. For example the game page for Go Go Rescue Squad used to be accessible to this writer, but no longer is.

 - Some games don't appear at all any more, even in searches. For example Nokia's own N-Gage games are supposed to be available through Ovi Store and n-gage.com even has a front page news item telling people about this, but the N-Gage games are absolutely nowhere to be found on Ovi Store. They're totally invisible in searches.

 - All of these problems apparently occur on both the website and the Ovi Store application, so they seem to be problems to do with the main Ovi Store database.

 - All of these problems occur even when the website's "All Phones" option is selected.

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