The reliance measure of damages awards expenses incurred in reliance on the contract, and the court found that Security Stove incurred reliance expenses of $801.51.
Note that, even if Security Stove could prove its lost profits with reasonable certainty, the court would not award them under the reliance measure of damages. The lost profits are not an expense; they are the goal Security Stove tried to achieve through expenditures of time, effort, and money. The reliance measure compensates for the expenditures.
Note: A plaintiff cannot recover both expectation damages and reliance damages. The expectation damages put the plaintiff in as good a position as he or she would have achieved had the contract been performed as promised. Adding reliance damages on top of this would over-compensate by putting the plaintiff in a better position.