Originally Posted by klawans

Warning!! Surveyor Ed Cozzi (Performance Marine Surveyors, Inc.)

I’m disappointed that I have to write this but sharing my experience with Ed Cozzi will hopefully help someone else.

I’m in the process of purchasing a performance boat and wanted to find the very best surveyor to do a thorough pre-purchase inspection. The boat is located in a somewhat rural area and I wasn’t impressed with any of the local surveyors, so I looked on this forum and read the recommendations.

I found several posts recommending Ed Cozzi. While Ed didn’t live in the same state as where the boat was located, I was willing to fly him to the location if I felt he was the best for the job.

I found Ed’s e-mail address on his website so on Saturday, July 8th, I sent him an e-mail explaining what I was looking for. I certainly didn’t expect to hear back from him because it was a weekend…and that was fine. I figured he would contact me on Monday.

Since I didn’t hear from him, I decided to call him on Monday, July 10th at 3:30pm and we had a wonderful 5 minute conversation. I was thrilled…he seemed to be the nicest guy. He said he does travel to do surveys and I informed him that I would book him a flight, have a rental car waiting for him, and pay his travel rate (he gave me the rate which I thought was expensive but fair considering he’s giving up other jobs for the day). I told him I have a transporter tentatively scheduled to pick up the boat in a week. We agreed and he said he would check his schedule to see if he could rearrange some things to get it done. He told me he would call me when he got home that evening.

That evening came and went without a call from Ed. I figured he was tired and I didn’t want to bother him and assumed he would call me the next day (Tuesday).

I did not hear from Ed in the morning so at 2:20pm, I texted him, “Hi Ed- Were you able to check your schedule to see when you had availability for the survey? Thanks! Ken”

No response but I figured he would call me later that day…but he didn’t call.

On Wednesday at 1:20pm, I called him and he answered his phone. He remembered our conversation and asked if he could call me right back. Again he was so nice and I said, “Sure!”.

After not hearing back from Ed, I called him 3+ hours later (4:40pm). He answered again and in that nice, friendly pleasant way, asked to call me back again. So again, I said, “Sure!”

Once again, he never called me back.

On Wednesday evening, I texted him saying, “Ed- Please, please please call me this evening to let me know about scheduling the survey. Since I have the transporters scheduled to pickup the boat on Monday, it seems like Friday (or Saturday) would be the only day left to do the survey. Thank you- Ken”

No response

It’s now Friday at 8pm. Ed Cozzi never called me once. He basically put me in the terrible position of making a choice whether to call off the transport company and find another surveyor…or purchase the boat without an inspection.

All he had to say is, “Ken I’m sorry…I’m just too busy and can’t get it done.” That would have been fine with me but instead, he jerked me around for almost a week…and never did what he said he would do. I was nothing but polite to him…never demanding…accepted his fees…but in the end, he screwed me.

I would NEVER recommend Ed Cozzi to perform a survey. His word is obviously worth nothing.

Originally Posted by 4Real

Eric and Mr. Ed Cozzi the biggest liars - we got a boat from him - it's the biggest lemon - the motors that was on the survey that we got from Mr. Ed Cozi and Eric was fraud. The serial numbers that were on the motors are not the motors that are in the boat now. These people are crooks and they need to be reported. Along with the trailer which almost killed us driving home- that also has a fraudulent serial number . These people should be in jail.

I will do anything and everything to make it known.

Spread the word, please...

Never buy anything from them and never use Ed Cozi For a surveyor. They work together to rip people off. We all work to hard in life to deal with this Kind of trash. Ripping people off.
We waited two weeks for the survey and there was never a sea trial video - He never even drove the boat.
he gave us a survey on motors that aren’t even in the boat. Everything that he said that worked didn’t. We spent so much more money than anyone should have. Mr. Cozzis survey said everything in good working condition…..
nope , Mr. Cozzi and Eric from land and sea enterprises south Florida . Are working together to rip off good hard working people .
we have proof . And there are many lawsuits against this.
how do they sleep at night ?????
karma is coming ………………………..
Never use Ed Cozzi to survey your boat!!!!!!
Never buy or sell anything to land and sea of south Florida….