I dont know. China perhaps,I buy cell from China for 40 $, never again. I check firmware version of my original battery and new one. On new one was 201, on old 406, same manufacturer SMP. I destroy plastic, and open new one. 6 cell was in there and some small electrnoic. I connect this 6 cell in serial, and connect to small 12V bulb 20 W. The Bulb was lighting 2,5 hours. I think that the main problem is in electronic which is charge this 6 cell. But this i my opinion. I buyed for 100 Eur from OWS, NewerTech NuPower, no problem at all.
I have the same situation. Battery dont want to charge, reset SMC 20 or more times. After 5 hoours, firmware say that is battery finished charged 100 % full. After 2 hours, I take off magic safe. The battery droped after half hour to 90 %. After one minutes droped from 90 to 60 %. after 5 minutes Macbook turn off, and dont want recognize the battery. I turn ON magic Safe, reset SMC, battery goes up to 90 %, what happened here ?