diff --git a/scripts/sync-prices.ts b/scripts/sync-prices.ts
index 1b48b5a..41060b9 100644
--- a/scripts/sync-prices.ts
+++ b/scripts/sync-prices.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ const DollarToInt = (dollar: any) => {
     return Math.round(dollar * 100);
 }
 
+function sleep(ms: number) {
+  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
+}
+
 async function resetProcessingTable() {
     // Use sql.raw to execute the TRUNCATE TABLE statement
     await db.execute(sql.raw('TRUNCATE TABLE processingSkus;'));
@@ -80,6 +84,8 @@ async function syncPrices() {
         // remove skus from the 'working' processingSkus table
         await db.delete(processingSkus).where(inArray(processingSkus.skuId, skuIds));
 
+        // be nice to the API and not send too many requests in a short time
+        await sleep(100);
     }
 
 }