I am done shipping international.  I lost over $400 on a sale to France. Guy claimed he did not get it paypal took my money , the post office would not pay a claim they said it was delivered. Paypal ignored me and would not refund even when I had a letter from the post office stating the item had been delivered. I have a friend who now has a Rolex in dispute on a sale to the UK. Guy would not pay the duty. said he returned it. They do not have the watch and paypal has frozen thier account to the tune of about $5800!.  I have not had these kinds of problem shipping domestic though paypal will still screw you often.
falsifing a customs form is a felony by the way and that includes stating an item has less value then you were paid for it or misreprenting what is in the box. Many international buyers will ask you to falsify the customs form then get mad when you do not. Most often they want to you to say the item is a gift and has no value. Of course if you say it has no or minimal value on the custom form then try to insure it for what it is worth you have convicted yourself of falsifieng the form.

Exactly!

Plus as others on here have said before, imagine if the auctioneer or storage facility rummages threw the unit and say takes a watch or ring or something of value and then the owners pays up right before auction, can you say lawsuit!

It would be theft to take from a locker before the auction at least in WA. State law requires the contents be auctioned. If there are no bidders at the auction then the managemnt can do what ever they want.  I see the locks all pre cut now they generally cut them the day before to see if there is anything in the locker and to do a inventory for the report.  The inventory just says like furniture boxes bikes whatever they do not go through the unit in detail.  I have seen them fill out the inventory the day of the auction as well. If a unit does not sell they ask peopel to sigh a statement there was no bid.

I always figure $10 a box for boxes and $2 a bag for bags then try to count or estimate how many are in there. Other items of value I add twice what I can see to the potnetial value. But some of it is still luck the boxes may hold nothing of value,

Got a deal on a 10X10 packed full for $20 because it smelled bad. It smelled like a dead rat to me but it was a 3 pound roll of ground beef.  Must have been in there 3 months the plastic cover was bulging way out. It was in a bag with 2 loaves of moldy bread as well.  It went right to the dump along with the 2 sets of mattress box springs the 2 couches and the love seat. Now I am into the unit $70 but there is a big pile of boxes and bags which I have not looked into yet. I did find new stuff coths and toys never used with tags and in boxes. It looks like an eviction where the person doing the eviction simply removes everthing from the apartment. I am hoping to find the womans jewelry box and purse. 

Goodwill in King Co has a contract with the county to take ewaste. Just dropped 5 off this weekend, We take the copper out of the TVs and monitors before bringing them to Goodwill.  Goodwill gets like $5 per set from the county. It keeps people from dumping them beside the road or at least someone will pick them up if they are dumped.   If someone would pay 6 cents a pound for them It would be great I have gotten TVs that weighed a couple hundred pounds before.  The big old Sony tube TVs several I have had to roll around cause we could not lift them.  Most of the weight is the tube.  BTW the tube is considered hazardous waste becasue of the Phosphor screen and the dumps will not take them. Rest of the set is not really hazardous.  There are international treaties on shipping scrap CRTs since they are hazardous waste.

IN WA trhe personals are given to the managment and they store them for one year. If not picked up in one year they ar e tossed.

Well I think I am about done.
I have 22grams of 14K, 6.5 of 18K and 1.5 of 22K. Comes out a little over $1100 in gold value I will probably get around $900 to $1000 for it. There is 7Grams of unkown stuff I am sure is gold as well. 
Found a lot of other stuff but nothing spectacular. 
Have hauled over a ton to the dump and have about 500 pounds to go.