Jean-Claude Gouin Jul 23, 2015:

PARSING ... You're right, Tony. IMHO there are missing commas in the original text; it should be 'Was your experience, seeing and handling the product, what you expected?'

Tony M Jul 23, 2015:

Parsing I don't think it really helps to parse it as 'experience seeing' — I assume you realize it is the 'experience' of 'seeing and handling the product'.

This word 'experience' is IMHO hugely over-used these days, so a 'meal' becomes a 'dining experience' — I frequently see 'expérience' used in FR, but I am inclined to feel this is more a case of lazy (or uncomprehending!) translation, since to some extent it might be argued the underlying meaning of 'experience' used thus is more akin to 'vécu': « Comment avez-vous vécu le... ? »
But I don't know how to formulate this idiomatically in FR.