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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 55 second-hand shops
Best second-hand shops in Johannesburg
The 10 most notable second-hand shops in Johannesburg, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Cash Crusaders Newtown Junction
Shop 223, Newtown Junction Mall, 100 Carr St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.198, percentile 100 of 55
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2
Cash Crusaders Randburg
Cnr Oak Ave & Sentrum Rd, Shop 512, Randburg Square Mall
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.188, percentile 98.15 of 55
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3
Megapawn
47 Main St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.175, percentile 96.3 of 55
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4
Cash Crusaders Rosettenville
159 Main St
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.171, percentile 94.44 of 55
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5
Cash Converters Comaro Crossing
Cash Converters Comaro Crossing, Comaro Crossing Shopping Centre, Cnr Oak and Boundary road, Oakdene
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.169, percentile 92.59 of 55
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6
Cash Converters Lemon Tree
Cnr Heidelberg Rd & Swartkoppies Rd, Lemon Tree Shopping Centre
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.167, percentile 90.74 of 55
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Cash Converters Northgate
Cash Converters Northgate, Cnr Northumberland Ave & Olievenhout Ave, Shop 502, Northgate Shopping Centre, Northgate
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.163, percentile 88.89 of 55
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8
Cash Converters Kempton Park
132 Kelvin St
596 m from Kempton Park, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.161, percentile 87.04 of 55
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9
Cash Crusaders Carlton Centre
Commissioner St, Shop 101 &102, Carlton Centre
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 85.19 of 55
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10
Cash Converters Meadowdale Mall
Cash Converters Meadowdale Mall, Van Riebeeck Ave, Shop 61, Meadowdale Mall, Sunnyrock
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.158, percentile 83.33 of 55
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).