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When Sauron created the Nazgūl by leting the 9 chosen Men wield the Rings he had dedicated to them, he himself held the One. At the same time he had tried some similar trick with 7 Dwarves, but in the case of the Dwarves without such effect as Sauron had hoped for: He could not controll the Dwarves with these rings as he could controll the Nazgūl and the livespan of the Dwarves was unchanged and thus they never became wrights. But the enhanced greed and haughtines even hubris of the Dwarvish wielders had for sure some effects in the history that Sauron might have seen as positiv for his propose.
That Sauron saw the 'experiment' with the Rings given to the Dwarves as a failure is seen in the fact that he recollected the 3 Rings that were left to himself in the Third Age. At that stage he no longer possed the One. To have full controll over the Nazgūl Sauron took the 9 Rings from them and wielded these himself. I don't think without the One he could creat new Ringwrights with the 3 remaining 'Dwarf-Rings'. I suppose it was rather for the enhancement of his own abbillity by what ever these Rings offered to their wielder that he recollected them from the Dwarves in the first place.
The offer to Dain (if intended to realise at all) was, in my oppinion, a bid for the future: With the informtion obtained Sauron hoped to find the One, and probabaly he sought he could withhold the 3 Rings long enough to have gained possesion of the One before Dain obtained the 3 Rings. Given the effects seen before, I think, that would not have delivered the Dwarves to Saurons influence at once, but it would have weekend their resistance.
Respectfuly
Findegil
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