Please help me save face!

I gave my friend a VEHO sim card (or rather multi-card) reader as a stocking gift, thinking I was being both sneakily cheap and geekily cool. Of course, the darn gizmo doesn't work, or rather we can'T get it to work. I've read a bunch of reviews on the thing (which I should have done BEFORE I got it) and many agree that it sucks. Some seem to have got it to work. Some even recommend it.

Can anybody give me a hint as to how I can get the thing to read my card? Would alternative software help? It reads SD cards with no problem.