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A covering buyer's damages are equal to the difference between the presumably higher cost of cover and the contract price, plus incidental or consequential damages suffered on account of the breach, less expenses saved (UCC 2-712 [2]). Ordinarily, an award for consequential damages occasioned by the seller's breach would be necessary to put a buyer in as good a position as it would have been had there been no breach (UCC 1-106; see, Neri v Retail Mar. Corp., 30 NY2d 393; 3 Hawkland, Uniform Commercial Code Series § 2-715:01, at 389).

In most instances saved expenses must be costs or expenditures which ...