Macbook Pro won't run on new battery

Okay, so I have this 17" MBP, late 2007 vintage, gotten refurbished in 2010. The battery, which was at about 700 cycles as of last week, swelled and was somehow still working up to the point when the new battery got here and was put in. That's fine with me, it's a refreshing change from the oodles of power cords I've gone through in the last several years. HOWEVER. The new battery, purchased off eBay from a highly-rated seller, had a cycle count of one when I installed it, and is now causing me problems. The couple of times I had it off the power cord right after putting the new battery in, it behaved a little erratically, shutting down in the thirty seconds it took me to change locations with it, but I didn't worry myself about it.
I had it off the power cord earlier today, and it was fine for half an hour or more, but then shut itself down abruptly. When I plugged it in and rebooted, it was showing the battery at about 50%. I did a little research and reset both the SMC and the PRAM, in the hopes that maybe it was just an issue of not really recognizing that it was a new battery yet. Immediately after those resets, during a bootup without being plugged in, it shut itself down before even completing the boot. I'm really hoping it's just a fluke with the new battery, and not that some other aspect of the MBP is failing, but I figured I'd ask around here before contacting the eBay seller.

dmwingon wrote:
purchased off eBay from a highly-rated seller,
reset both the SMC a
If you did the SMC reset and no love,  take it up with your highly-rated seller.

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