Auction Site - Magento vs. Joomla or Others?

Hi, I need an auction site created similar to auctionmaxx.com. - AuctionMaxx uses a customized version of Joomla. But I am not sure what extensions its using for the auction aspect.

Joomla
- Going to use a template and then hire someone to incorporate the auction aspect

Magento
- Going to use a left-menu based theme using the following auction extension
> http://www.magestore.com/magento-auction-extension.html
> OR http://store.belvg.com/auction.html
- I'm going to try to install the extension myself but if that fails I'll probably have to hire someone to do it for me.

CONS for Magento
- very very slow, and I'm probably have to spend $250 to hire someone to optimize for speed, like full page caching etc. but that won't be an immediate need right away

Budget to hire someone is $250 max for either Magento or Joomla.

- I will customize each theme slightly, like moving/adding graphics, changing colors and things like that.
- What would you recommend I do? I'm not very good at programming.
- Please give me your pros and cons for each content management system or if you have another solution please let me know.

Thanks

 

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Joomla offers better flexibility and more plugins but most of them are paid. Magento is used on a very small scale... Better to go with first one.