diff --git a/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/index.js b/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/index.js
index f9b6622..42ed347 100644
--- a/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/index.js
+++ b/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/index.js
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ async function fetchWebsiteData({ paths: runPaths }) {
     }
   }
 
-  const concurrency = Number(process.env.RETRORIDES_CONCURRENCY ?? 3);
+  const concurrency = Number(process.env.RETRORIDES_CONCURRENCY ?? 1);
   const now = new Date().toISOString();
 
   console.log(`[RETRORIDES] Scraping all products from retrorides.co.in (concurrency=${concurrency})...`);
diff --git a/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/scraper.js b/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/scraper.js
index f13dda4..0d15945 100644
--- a/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/scraper.js
+++ b/src/business-logic/import-pipeline/sources/retrorides/scraper.js
@@ -22,13 +22,14 @@ function sleep(ms) {
 }
 
 async function fetchText(url, maxAttempts) {
-  maxAttempts = maxAttempts || 4;
+  maxAttempts = maxAttempts || 5;
   for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= maxAttempts; attempt++) {
     try {
       const response = await fetch(url, { headers: FETCH_HEADERS });
-      if (response.status === 429) {
-        const waitMs = attempt * 4000;
-        console.log("[RETRY] " + url + " HTTP 429, retrying in " + waitMs + "ms...");
+      // 429 = rate limit, 409 = WAF conflict from concurrent requests — both need backoff + retry
+      if (response.status === 429 || response.status === 409) {
+        const waitMs = attempt * 5000;
+        console.log("[RETRY] " + url + " HTTP " + response.status + ", retrying in " + waitMs + "ms...");
         await sleep(waitMs);
         continue;
       }
@@ -38,7 +39,7 @@ async function fetchText(url, maxAttempts) {
       return await response.text();
     } catch (err) {
       if (attempt === maxAttempts) throw err;
-      await sleep(attempt * 1500);
+      await sleep(attempt * 2000);
     }
   }
   throw new Error("fetchText: exhausted retries");
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ async function mapWithConcurrency(items, concurrency, fn) {
 }
 
 async function scrapeRetroRidesProducts(options) {
-  const concurrency = (options && options.concurrency) || 3;
+  const concurrency = (options && options.concurrency) || 1;
   const urls = await getAllProductUrls();
   console.log("[RETRORIDES] Found " + urls.length + " product URLs from sitemap");
   const products = await mapWithConcurrency(urls, concurrency, async function(url, index) {