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A court is granted a “reasonable leeway” in measuring market price under section 2-723. Sprague v. Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd., 104 Wash.2d 751, 760, 709 P.2d 1200 (1985). A trial court may use a market price for goods different in quality from those for which the buyer contracted. That possibility is encompassed in the reference to “price which in commercial judgment or under usage of trade would serve as a reasonable substitute for the one described”. And section 2-723 expressly permits looking to a price “prevailing within any reasonable time before or after the time described.” 

Under UCC 2-723 the measure ...