Yup keppel that did the trick, It reduced an imported obj I had from about 211 megs down to 52 megs and still kept its shape on export.

Nice tool for free, I have looked around and there are so called poly reducers with a pretty hefty price tag.

Guess if nothing else, blender has a nice set of utilities. Who knows someday I might medicate myself and try to learn it again .. LOL