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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 23 second-hand shops
Best second-hand shops in Kuala Lumpur
The 10 most notable second-hand shops in Kuala Lumpur, 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
Perfect Hi-Fi Sdn Bhd - Amcorp Mall PJ
7 Jalan Barat
288 m from Taman Jaya LRT station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.326, percentile 100 of 23
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2
Cash Converters Sg Besi
35G & 37G, Jalan Tasik Utama 6 Medan Niaga Tasik Damai, 37-1, Jalan Tasik Utama 6
278 m from Sungai Besi station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.312, percentile 95.45 of 23
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3
Cash Converters Ampang
96 & 97, Lrg Memanda 2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.269, percentile 90.91 of 23
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4
Pucuk Rebung Gallery
18, Lrg Ara Kiri 2
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.247, percentile 86.36 of 23
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5
Cash Converters Setapak
A-01-01 Starparc Point
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.219, percentile 81.82 of 23
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6
Eyematic Optometry - Amcorp Mall - 201903249321
7 Jalan Barat
420 m from Asia Jaya LRT station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.185, percentile 77.27 of 23
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7
Luxury Vintage Designer Treasure
114 Jalan Maarof
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.178, percentile 72.73 of 23
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8
Kasturi Walk Food and night market
Kasturi Walk, 32, Jalan Hang Kasturi
308 m from Pasar Seni station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.134, percentile 68.18 of 23
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9
KL Base Exhibition Center (KLBEC)
Pangkalan Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia, KL Base, Jalan Lapangan Terbang Lama
471 m from Bandar Malaysia North station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.933, percentile 63.64 of 23
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10
Sin Thye Tong Pawnshop
Wilayah Persekutuan, Jln Kepong
358 m from Metro Prima station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.864, percentile 59.09 of 23
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).