Do you guys offer them?
Are there package warranties for the whole system?
What companies do you use?

Biggest ripoff in the industry

Not as much of a problem if you're selling them. ;)

I've never sold them, but I've observed them being part of the atmosphere of audio/video.

From the customer's point of view, most people accept that extended warranties are a necessary evil, just in case, but one out of a hundred customers had their asses saved by having a warranty.

From the salesperson's point of view, these are evil but selling them is required for them to keep their jobs. They are GREAT killers of the salesperson's emotional attachment to the company. In this way they work against the company.

I don't. I would like to. Which disty carries them?

Do any of the warranty companies fairly compensate me for my time to manage the removal, shipment, and reinstall/reprogram the item? Or, does the deal assume that I sell a warranty package with each system and apply the cost of a  service call against the overall profit from my warranty sales?

Overall I think that, if the customer has the cash flow to absorb the loss, they are long term better off without this sort of insurance. (“Self insurance” if you like) On one level it is a wager: consumer bets that the unit will break, insurance company bets that the unit will not break. Guess who knows the real odds and makes money on the deal.

Third party warranties are just another thing to sell, if we want to. When I did car audio, the last place sold their own extended warranty, self-funded. It was really a way to collect cash, but for car audio, it actually made sense because of a car's harsh environment- if they didn't buy it at the time of sale, they had 15-30 days to add it and as the manager of an installation shop, I had discretion over the time period, depending on the customer and to an extent, the equipment. Not only did it cover P&L for three or five years, it also covered removal and reinstallation for service, for the life of the warranty. Depending on the AV extended warranty, it may cover removal and reinstall, but it also depends on how & where the item is serviced- large TVs may be serviced on-site, smaller ones may be sent to a regional repair center, like Electronic Express in Chicago or the place in New Jersey that do repairs for most brands. If the client doesn't want to pack & ship things, they can pay us. It's not a cash & carry transaction, right?

Yeah, it's a wager, like any other insurance. It's also better than paying for a display screen when the brand charges service shops over a grand just for the part, like one did in the past.

Back when I worked at Circuit City for a few months, we had a kid that could sell the extended warranties to anyone.

he sold a 20 dollar pair of open box speakers and an 80 dollar 5 year extended plan on top of them.  his numbers were insane when it came to add ons and warranty plans.

i had too much of a heart to sell them to people, so I stayed back in the shop mostly.